Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 144
"And there's a poor little creature bound fast in it," said another.
What happens: be, bind, say · To what, where: poor little creature, world, another · 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: 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 | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 's | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 creature | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 creature | acl |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 bound | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bound | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 creature | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a poor little creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bind in a quote | participle | a poor little creature not said here | world | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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