Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 27

Then he went on, and under the shadow of a large haystack he found a caterpillar crawling along. "

Who acts: beetle, caterpillar · What happens: go on, find, crawl, shadow · To what, where: caterpillar, shadow, large haystack

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, caterpillar), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 shadow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 haystack	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 haystack	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 haystack	amod
13	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shadow	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 caterpillar	det
17	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obj
18	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 caterpillar	acl
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 crawling	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	beetle			then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	beetle	a caterpillar	the shadow of a large haystack			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Topic
3	crawl	gerund	a caterpillar not said here				along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shadow			a large haystack				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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