Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 132

"Well, now I know the world," said the beetle to himself; "it's an abominable world; I'm the only respectable person in it.

Who acts: beetle, world · What happens: know, say, be · To what, where: world, beetle, abominable world, only respectable person · 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 (beetle, world), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 know	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beetle	det
13	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 world	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 world	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 world	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 world	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 world	det
21	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 world	amod
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 person	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 person	nsubj
25	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 person	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 person	det
27	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 person	amod
28	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 person	amod
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 person	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the beetle = beetle	the world			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the beetle		beetle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	world	a abominable world				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	the beetle = beetle	the only respectable person		world		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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