Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 70

Thus each mother spoke of her baby, and their babies talked after their own fashion, and made use of the little nippers they have in their tails to nip the beard of the beetle.

Who acts: mother, babies, made use · What happens: speak, talk, make, have, nip, use · To what, where: tails, beard, little nippers · 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 (mother, babies, made use), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 baby	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 baby	nmod:poss
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talked	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 babies	nmod:poss
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talked	nsubj
12	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 fashion	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fashion	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fashion	amod
16	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 use	amod
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 nippers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nippers	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nippers	amod
24	nippers	nipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 use	nmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 tails	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tails	nmod:poss
29	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 nip	mark
31	nip	nip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beard	det
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nip	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 beetle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beetle	det
36	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beard	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	each mother				of mother's baby; thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	third's babies			after third's own fashion		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	participle						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	have	present	made use of the little nippers		third's tails			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	nip	to-infinitive	made use of the little nippers not said here	the beard of the beetle				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beard=Theme
6	use			the little nippers				nom use «act transitive»: of=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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