Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 22

The lady-birds, with red and black shells on their backs, and delicate wings, were flying about, and one of them said, "Is it not sweet and lovely here?

Who acts: lady birds, one, back · What happens: fly, say, not be, be · 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 (lady birds, one, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:476): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birds	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flying	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shells	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 shells	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shells	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	conj
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 birds	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 backs	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 backs	nmod:poss
13	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shells	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wings	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wings	cc
16	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wings	amod
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shells	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shells	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flying	aux
20	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 flying	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 said	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flying	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 sweet	punct
30	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sweet	cop
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sweet	nsubj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 sweet	advmod
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lovely	cc
35	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sweet	conj
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sweet	advmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 sweet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	lady birds with red shells on birds's backs and delicate wings		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	one of birds			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	back	here	sweet property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		back not said here			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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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