Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 74

When he arrived at the ditch, he met several friends, all them beetles; "We live here," they said, "and we are very comfortable.

Who acts: beetle, all, We, friends · What happens: arrive, meet, beetle, live, say, be · To what, where: ditch, several friends · 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, all, We, friends), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 met	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ditch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ditch	det
6	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 met	nsubj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friends	amod
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 met	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beetles	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beetles	nsubj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
15	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 friends	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
18	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 live	nsubj
19	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 met	conj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 live	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 live	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 comfortable	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 comfortable	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 comfortable	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 comfortable	advmod
31	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 met	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	beetle		the ditch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	beetle	several friends and beetles			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
3	beetle		all				tree rules
4	live in a quote	present	We		here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	friends = friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	we			comfortable property	tree rules

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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