Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 6
A beetle came creeping forth from the stable, where the farrier had been shoeing the horse. "
Who acts: beetle, farrier · What happens: come, creep, shoe · To what, where: stable, horse
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, farrier), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 creeping | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stable | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stable | det |
| 8 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creeping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoeing | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 shoeing | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farrier | det |
| 12 | farrier | farrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoeing | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoeing | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 shoeing | aux |
| 15 | shoeing | shoe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 creeping | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoeing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a beetle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | a beetle not said here | the stable | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stable=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | shoe | past · perfect · progressive | the farrier | the horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
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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