Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 134

Then, when I have made a step forward in the world, and found out a comfortable position, just as I could wish it to be, one of these human boys comes and ties me up, and leaves me to the mercy of the wild waves, while the emperor's favorite horse goes prancing about proudly on his golden shoes.

Who acts: I, favorite horse · What happens: make, find out, wish, come, tie up, leave · To what, where: step, world, comfortable position, position, me, mercy

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, favorite horse), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 comes	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 step	det
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 found	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 position	det
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 position	amod
19	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wish	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	25 wish	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 wish	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 wish	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wish	aux
25	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 position	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wish	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 be	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 wish	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 one	punct
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 found	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 boys	case
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 boys	det
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boys	amod
34	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ties	cc
37	ties	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 comes	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ties	obj
39	up	up	ADP	_	37 ties	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 leaves	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 leaves	cc
42	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 comes	parataxis
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 leaves	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 mercy	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 mercy	det
46	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaves	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 waves	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 waves	det
49	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 waves	amod
50	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 mercy	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 goes	punct
52	while	while	SCONJ	_	58 goes	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 emperor	det
54	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 horse	nmod:poss
55	's	's	PART	_	54 emperor	case
56	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 horse	amod
57	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 goes	nsubj
58	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 leaves	conj
59	prancing	prance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 goes	xcomp
60	about	about	ADV	_	61 proudly	advmod
61	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	59 prancing	advmod
62	on	on	ADP	_	65 shoes	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 shoes	nmod:poss
64	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 shoes	amod
65	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 prancing	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect	I	a step		the world	then	forward property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Product
2	find out	past		a comfortable position					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic
3	wish	could	I	position					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	come	present							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tie up	present		me					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	leave	present		me	the mercy of the wild waves				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mercy=Recipient
7	go	present	the emperor's favorite horse						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	prance	gerund	the emperor's favorite horse not said here			horse's golden shoes		proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Trajectory

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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