Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 69

They are never ill-behaved, except when they are uncomfortable in their inside, which unfortunately often happens at their age."

Who acts: third, inside · What happens: not behave, be, happen · To what, where: third, inside, age

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 (third, inside), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 behaved	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 behaved	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 behaved	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 behaved	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct
6	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 uncomfortable	punct
8	except	except	ADP	_	12 uncomfortable	mark
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 uncomfortable	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 uncomfortable	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 uncomfortable	cop
12	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 behaved	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 inside	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 inside	nmod:poss
15	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncomfortable	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happens	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happens	nsubj
18	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	20 happens	advmod
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 happens	advmod
20	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 inside	acl:relcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 age	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 age	nmod:poss
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happens	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 behaved	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 behaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not behave	present · passive		third				tree rules
2	is	present	third		third's inside		uncomfortable property	tree rules
3	happen	present	third's inside			at third's age	often, unfortunately property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at age=Location

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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