Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 45
Towards morning he crept out of his hiding-place, feeling in a very bad temper with the climate.
Who acts: rain · What happens: creep out, feel · To what, where: hiding place
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 (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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 morning | compound |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hiding | punct |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crept | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 temper | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 temper | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 bad | advmod |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 temper | amod |
| 17 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeling | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 climate | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 climate | det |
| 20 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | rain | rain's hiding place | morning | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location place=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | rain not said here | with the climate; in a bad temper | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in temper=Attribute |
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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