Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 34

To have wings and fly! why, I can do that already;" and so saying, he spread his wings and flew away. "

Who acts: I, fact · What happens: have, fly, do, say, spread, fly away · To what, where: wings, that · 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, fact), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	advcl
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fly	cc
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fly	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 do	obj
13	already	already	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saying	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 saying	advmod
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spread	nsubj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wings	nmod:poss
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spread	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		wings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	fly	infinitive				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	can	I	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spread in a quote	past	fact	fact's wings		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
6	fly away in a quote	past	fact not said here		away property	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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