Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 21
"You're a rude fellow," cried the beetle, as he walked out of the stable; and then he flew for a short distance, till he found himself in a beautiful flower-garden, all fragrant with roses and lavender.
Who acts: You, rude fellow, fellow · What happens: be, cry, walk out, fly, find · To what, where: rude fellow, beetle, stable, beautiful flower garden · 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 (You, rude fellow, fellow), 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 | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beetle | det |
| 11 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 walked | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 stable | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stable | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stable | det |
| 19 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 flew | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flew | nsubj |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 distance | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 distance | det |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 distance | amod |
| 28 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flew | conj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 found | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 garden | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 garden | det |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 garden | amod |
| 37 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 garden | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 flower | punct |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fragrant | punct |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 fragrant | advmod |
| 42 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 garden | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 roses | case |
| 44 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 fragrant | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 lavender | cc |
| 46 | lavender | lavender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 roses | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a rude fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a rude fellow | the beetle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | walk out | past | fellow | the stable | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | fellow | then | for a short distance | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past | fellow | beetle | a beautiful flower garden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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