Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 30
And soon I shall go to sleep, and die as they call it, but I shall wake up with beautiful wings to fly with, like a butterfly."
Who acts: I, birds · What happens: go, die, call, wake up, fly · To what, where: sleep · 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, birds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 die | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 die | cc |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 call | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 call | nsubj |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 die | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 call | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wake | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 wake | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wake | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wake | aux |
| 19 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 die | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 wake | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 wings | case |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wings | amod |
| 23 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wake | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fly | mark |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wake | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 butterfly | case |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 butterfly | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 butterfly | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 butterfly | det |
| 30 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fly | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | sleep | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | die | present | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | call | present | birds = bird | sleep | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wake up | shall | I | with beautiful wings | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | I not said here | with a butterfly | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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