Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 42

He saw something gleaming, and he managed to make his way up to it.

Who acts: beetle · What happens: see, gleam, manage, make up · To what, where: something, way

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 saw	obj
4	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 something	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 managed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 managed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 managed	nsubj
8	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 managed	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	up	up	ADV	_	10 make	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	beetle	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	gleam	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	manage	past	beetle			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make up	to-infinitive	beetle not said here	beetle's way	way	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Pivot

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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