Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 64
"Our son," said another, "had scarcely crept out of the egg, when he was off on his travels.
Who acts: son · What happens: say, creep off, travel · To what, where: another, egg · 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 (son), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crept | aux |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 egg | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 egg | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 egg | det |
| 16 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 egg | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 off | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 off | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 off | cop |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 crept | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 24 travels | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 travels | nmod:poss |
| 24 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 crept | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Our son | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | ||||
| 2 | creep off in a quote | past · perfect | Our son not said here | the egg | scarcely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out egg=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | travel in a quote | present | Our son not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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