Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 61

"Our dear son has engaged himself," said one mother, "dear innocent boy; his greatest ambition is that he may one day creep into a clergyman's ear.

Who acts: one mother, greatest ambition, boy · What happens: engage, say, be, ambition · To what, where: dear son, day creep, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one mother, greatest ambition, boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 engaged	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 mother	nummod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
16	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 boy	amod
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 creep	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ambition	nmod:poss
20	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 ambition	amod
21	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 creep	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 creep	cop
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 creep	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 creep	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 creep	aux
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 creep	compound
28	creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	33 ear	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 clergyman	det
31	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ear	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 clergyman	case
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 creep	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	engage in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Our dear son		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer himself=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	one mother and dear innocent boy and day creep			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	may · present	boy's greatest ambition	day creep	a clergyman's ear	tree rules
4	ambition in a quote		boy			nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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