Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 130
"You speak without knowing the facts," replied the beetle; "don't you see that I am a prisoner?"
Who acts: You, beetle · What happens: speak, know, reply, do, not see, be · To what, where: facts, prisoner · 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 (You, beetle), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 knowing | mark |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 facts | det |
| 7 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knowing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 facts | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beetle | det |
| 12 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 speak | conj |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 prisoner | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 prisoner | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 prisoner | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 prisoner | det |
| 23 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | You | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | gerund | the beetle not said here | the facts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the beetle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | beetle | a prisoner | tree rules |
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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