Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 66
How charming this is for a mother, is it not Mr. Beetle?" for she knew the stranger by his horny coat.
Who acts: this, life, mother · What happens: charm, be, not be, know · To what, where: charming Beetle, stranger
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 (this, life, mother), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 charming | advmod |
| 2 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Beetle | amod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mother | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mother | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 charming | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 charming | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Beetle | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Beetle | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Beetle | advmod |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Beetle | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Beetle | Beetle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 Beetle | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Beetle | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 knew | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stranger | det |
| 20 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 coat | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 coat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horny | horny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coat | amod |
| 24 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | this | for a mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | life | charming Beetle | Mr. nmod:desc | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | past | mother | the stranger | by son's horny coat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
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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