Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 138
The world does not deserve to be made acquainted with my adventures, for it ought to have given me golden shoes when the emperor's horse was shod, and I stretched out my feet to be shod, too.
Who acts: world, I, my · What happens: not deserve, make, give, shoe, stretch out, adventure · To what, where: golden shoes, me, horse, feet
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 (world, I, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserve | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserve | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deserve | advmod |
| 5 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deserve | advcl |
| 9 | acquainted | acquainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 adventures | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 12 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 acquainted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ought | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ought | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 made | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 given | iobj |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shoes | amod |
| 22 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 shod | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 emperor | det |
| 25 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 emperor | case |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shod | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shod | aux:pass |
| 29 | shod | shoe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 given | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stretched | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stretched | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 stretched | nsubj |
| 33 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserve | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 stretched | compound:prt |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 feet | nmod:poss |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 stretched | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 shod | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 shod | aux:pass |
| 39 | shod | shoe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 stretched | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 too | punct |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 shod | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve | present · do-support | the world | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | the world not said here | acquainted property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | give | ought · perfect | the world not said here | golden shoes | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | shoe | past · passive | the emperor's horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 5 | stretch out | past | I | my feet | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 6 | shoe | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 7 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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