Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 58
Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of broken crockery-ware, which certainly ought not to have been lying there.
Who acts: beetle, piece · What happens: go on, stumble, not lie · To what, where: piece
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, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:505): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farther | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stumbled | cc |
| 9 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 piece | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stumbled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ware | case |
| 14 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ware | amod |
| 15 | crockery | crockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ware | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 crockery | punct |
| 17 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lying | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lying | nsubj |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 26 lying | advmod |
| 21 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 lying | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 lying | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lying | mark |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lying | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 lying | aux |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 piece | acl:relcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 lying | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | beetle | then | far property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stumble | past | beetle not said here | a piece of broken crockery ware | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not lie | ought · perfect · progressive | a piece of broken crockery ware | there | certainly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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