Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 73

"But I shall try to get so far," said the beetle, and he walked off without taking any formal leave, which is considered a polite thing to do.

Who acts: beetle · What happens: try, get, say, walk off, take, consider · To what, where: formal leave · 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 (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 try	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 try	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beetle	det
14	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 walked	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 walked	compound:prt
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 taking	mark
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 walked	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 leave	det
23	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leave	amod
24	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 considered	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 considered	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 considered	aux:pass
28	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 leave	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thing	det
30	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thing	amod
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 considered	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thing	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	shall	the beetle = beetle			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the beetle = beetle not said here		far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the beetle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk off	past	beetle			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	gerund	beetle not said here	any formal leave		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
6	consider	present · passive		any formal leave		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme thing=Attribute
7	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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