Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 39

He was tumbled over and over with the rain, sometimes swimming on his stomach and sometimes on his back; and as for flying, that was out of the question.

Who acts: that · What happens: tumble, swim, fly, be · To what, where: beetle, stomach, question

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 (that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tumbled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tumbled	aux:pass
3	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 tumbled	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 over	cc
6	over	over	ADV	_	4 over	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tumbled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swimming	punct
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 swimming	advmod
12	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tumbled	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 stomach	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stomach	nmod:poss
15	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swimming	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 back	cc
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 back	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 back	nmod:poss
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stomach	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 flying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flying	cc
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	25 flying	cc
24	for	for	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tumbled	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 question	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 question	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 question	cop
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 question	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 question	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 question	det
32	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flying	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tumble	past · passive		beetle		with the rain; over property	vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with rain=Co-Patient
2	swim	gerund			beetle's stomach and beetle's back	sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stomach=Trajectory
3	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	that		the question		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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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