Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 44

He crept into a fold of the damp linen, which certainly was not so comfortable a place to lie in as the warm stable, but there was nothing better, so he remained lying there for a whole day and night, and the rain kept on all the time.

Who acts: beetle, damp linen, nothing, rain · What happens: creep, not be, place, lie in, be, remain · To what, where: fold

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, damp linen, nothing, rain), 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 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fold	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fold	det
5	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 linen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 linen	det
8	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 linen	amod
9	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 place	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 place	nsubj
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	16 comfortable	advmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 comfortable	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 comfortable	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 comfortable	advmod
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 linen	appos
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lie	mark
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 place	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	20 lie	compound:prt
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 stable	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stable	det
24	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stable	amod
25	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lie	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 was	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 was	nsubj
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 nothing	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 remained	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 remained	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remained	nsubj
35	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
36	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 remained	xcomp
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 lying	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 day	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 day	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 day	amod
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lying	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 night	cc
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 day	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 kept	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 kept	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rain	det
47	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kept	nsubj
48	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crept	parataxis
49	on	on	ADP	_	52 time	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 time	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 time	det
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 kept	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	beetle	a fold of the damp linen			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fold=Destination
2	not is	past				certainly, comfortable property	tree rules
3	place		the damp linen				tree rules
4	lie in	to-infinitive	beetle not said here			as the warm stable	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be	past	nothing	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	remain	past	beetle				tree rules
7	lie	gerund	beetle not said here	there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	keep	participle	the rain		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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