Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 150
For some time he clung to the mane, that he might recover himself. "
Who acts: beetle · What happens: cling, recover · To what, where: beetle
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clung | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clung | nsubj |
| 5 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mane | det |
| 8 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 recover | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 recover | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 recover | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 recover | aux |
| 13 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clung | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 recover | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 recover | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 recover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | beetle | time | to the mane | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to mane=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | recover | might | beetle | beetle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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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