Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 71
"They are always busy about something, the little rogues," said the mother, beaming with maternal pride; but the beetle felt it a bore, and he therefore inquired the way to the nearest dung-heap.
Who acts: third, mother, beetle · What happens: be, say, beam, feel, inquire · To what, where: pride, way · 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 (third, mother, beetle), 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 | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 busy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rogues | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rogues | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rogues | amod |
| 11 | rogues | rogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 something | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beaming | punct |
| 18 | beaming | beam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pride | case |
| 20 | maternal | maternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pride | amod |
| 21 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beaming | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beetle | det |
| 25 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | obj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bore | det |
| 29 | bore | bore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 inquired | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 inquired | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 inquired | nsubj |
| 33 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 34 inquired | advmod |
| 34 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 felt | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 way | det |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 inquired | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 heap | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 heap | det |
| 39 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 heap | amod |
| 40 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heap | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 dung | punct |
| 42 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 inquired | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | third | about something; always, busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beam | gerund | the mother not said here | with maternal pride | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | the beetle | pride | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme bore=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | inquire speech: other | past | beetle | the way | to the nearest dung heap; therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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