Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 14
Am I not just as good as that great creature yonder, who is waited upon and brushed, and has food and drink placed before him?
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, wait, brush, have, place · To what, where: great creature, food
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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 good | advmod |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 creature | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 11 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 creature | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waited | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 waited | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 waited | aux:pass |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 creature | parataxis |
| 16 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 18 brushed | mark |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brushed | cc |
| 18 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 waited | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | parataxis |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drink | cc |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | conj |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 food | acl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 placed | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | as that great creature; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | present · passive | that great creature | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | brush | past | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | food and drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||||
| 5 | place | participle | food and drink not said here | before shoe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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