Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 40

He began to doubt whether he should escape with his life, so he remained, quietly lying where he was.

Who acts: beetle · What happens: begin, doubt, escape, remain, lie, be

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 doubt	mark
4	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 escape	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 escape	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 escape	aux
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 doubt	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 remained	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 lying	advmod
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 remained	advcl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 was	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	beetle		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	doubt	to-infinitive	beetle not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	escape	should	beetle	with beetle's life	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain	past	beetle		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie	gerund	beetle not said here	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	beetle		vn exist-47.1 «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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