Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 59
But as it was there, it formed a good shelter against wind and weather to several families of earwigs who dwelt in it.
Who acts: piece, earwigs · What happens: be, form, dwell · To what, where: good shelter, several families, 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 (piece, earwigs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 formed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 formed | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 formed | nsubj |
| 8 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shelter | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shelter | amod |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 formed | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 wind | case |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shelter | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weather | cc |
| 15 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wind | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 families | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 families | amod |
| 18 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 formed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 earwigs | case |
| 20 | earwigs | earwig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 families | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 dwelt | nsubj |
| 22 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 earwigs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dwelt | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | piece | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | past | piece | a good shelter | several families of earwigs | against wind and weather | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme to family=Recipient | ||
| 3 | dwell | past | earwigs | piece | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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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