Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 76

"Certainly," said the beetle, "I shall be most happy; I have been exposed to the rain, and have had to lie upon linen, and cleanliness is a thing that greatly exhausts me; I have also pains in one of my wings from standing in the draught under a piece of broken crockery.

Who acts: beetle, cleanliness, thing, wings · What happens: say, be, expose, have, lie, exhaust · To what, where: beetle, rain, linen, thing, pains, draught · 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, cleanliness, thing, wings), 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 said	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beetle	det
7	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 happy	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 happy	cop
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 exposed	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 exposed	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 exposed	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 exposed	aux:pass
19	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 rain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rain	det
22	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exposed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
26	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lie	mark
28	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 linen	case
30	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lie	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thing	cc
33	cleanliness	cleanliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thing	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thing	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thing	det
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 exhausts	nsubj
38	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	39 exhausts	advmod
39	exhausts	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thing	acl:relcl
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 exhausts	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
43	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
44	also	also	ADV	_	45 pains	advmod
45	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 have	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 one	case
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 have	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 wings	case
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wings	nmod:poss
50	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 one	nmod
51	from	from	SCONJ	_	52 standing	mark
52	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 wings	acl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 draught	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 draught	det
55	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 standing	obl
56	under	under	ADP	_	58 piece	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 piece	det
58	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 standing	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 crockery	case
60	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 crockery	amod
61	crockery	crockery	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 piece	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the beetle				certainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	shall	the beetle = beetle				happy property	tree rules
3	expose in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the beetle = beetle	the rain			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to rain=Recipient
4	have in a quote	present · perfect						tree rules
5	lie in a quote	to-infinitive				linen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon linen=Location
6	is a in a quote	present	cleanliness	a thing				tree rules
7	exhaust in a quote	present	a thing	the beetle = beetle			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
8	have in a quote	present	the beetle = beetle	pains			in one of my wings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
9	stand in a quote	gerund	my wings not said here			the draught	under a piece of broken crockery	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in draught=Location
10	break in a quote	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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