Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 41
After a while the weather cleared up a little, and the beetle was able to rub the water from his eyes, and look about him.
Who acts: weather, beetle · What happens: clear up, be, rub, look · To what, where: little, water, eyes
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 (weather, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleared | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleared | nsubj |
| 6 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 cleared | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cleared | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beetle | det |
| 13 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cleared | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rub | mark |
| 17 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rub | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rub | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rub | conj |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear up | past | the weather | a little | while | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | |||
| 2 | is | past | the beetle | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rub | to-infinitive | the beetle not said here | the water | beetle's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from eye=Source | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | the beetle not said here | about beetle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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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