Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 151
Well," he said, "here I am, seated on the emperor's favorite horse,--sitting upon him as if I were the emperor himself.
Who acts: beetle, I · What happens: say, be, seat, sit · To what, where: emperor · 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: who acts (beetle, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 here | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seated | punct |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emperor | det |
| 15 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 emperor | case |
| 17 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 horse | amod |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | advcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sitting | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 emperor | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 emperor | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 emperor | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 emperor | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 emperor | det |
| 29 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sitting | advcl |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 emperor | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | beetle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seat | participle | beetle not said here | on the emperor's favorite horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | beetle not said here | upon beetle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon he=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | I | the emperor | tree rules |
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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