Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 153
Ah, I remember now,--that's a good thought,--he asked me why the golden shoes were given to the horse.
Who acts: I, that, beetle · What happens: remember, be, ask, give · To what, where: good thought, me, golden shoes, horse
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, that, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 remember | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remember | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thought | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | amod |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 given | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shoes | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shoes | amod |
| 21 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 asked | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 horse | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | I | now | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a good thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | beetle | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give | past · passive | the golden shoes | the horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to horse=Recipient |
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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