Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 65
He is all life and spirits, I expect he will wear out his horns with running.
Who acts: son, I · What happens: be, expect, wear out, run · To what, where: life, horns
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, I), 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:pg27200:511): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 life | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 life | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 life | det |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spirits | cc |
| 6 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 life | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expect | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 expect | nsubj |
| 9 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 life | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wear | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wear | aux |
| 12 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expect | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 wear | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horns | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wear | obj |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 running | mark |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wear | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | son | all life and spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wear out | future | son | son's horns | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | son not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: 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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