Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 38
The beetle woke up with the noise and would have been glad to creep into the earth for shelter, but he could not.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: wake up, be, creep · To what, where: earth
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 noise | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 glad | cop |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 creep | mark |
| 14 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 creep | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 shelter | case |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 earth | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 could | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 could | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 could | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | advcl |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 could | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the beetle | with the noise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | would · perfect | the beetle not said here | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep | to-infinitive | the beetle not said here | the earth for shelter | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination |
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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