Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 18
Well, I understand that it is a personal slight to me," cried the beetle. "
Who acts: I, reason, farrier · What happens: understand, be, cry · To what, where: personal slight, me, beetle · 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 (I, reason, farrier), 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 | _ | 4 understand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 slight | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slight | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 slight | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 slight | det |
| 9 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slight | amod |
| 10 | slight | slight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 slight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beetle | det |
| 17 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | reason | a personal slight | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the farrier = farrier not said here | the beetle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=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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