Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 128
What beautiful weather," said the fly; "I shall rest here and sun myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, rest · To what, where: fly, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fly | det |
| 8 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rest | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 rest | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 rest | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rest | aux |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 rest | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sun | cc |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | conj |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 rest | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fly=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rest | shall | I | myself | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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