Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 67

"You are both quite right," said he; so they begged him to walk in, that is to come as far as he could under the broken piece of earthenware.

Who acts: You, son, horns, that · What happens: be, say, beg, walk in, break · To what, where: son, broken piece · 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 (You, son, horns, that), 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 right	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 begged	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 walk	mark
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	xcomp
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 walk	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 come	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 walk	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 come	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 could	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 far	advcl
29	under	under	ADP	_	32 piece	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 piece	det
31	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 piece	amod
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 earthenware	case
34	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piece	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			both, right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	horns = horn	son			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	walk in not said to happen	to-infinitive	horns = horn not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	that		the broken piece of earthenware	come, far property	tree rules
6	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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