Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 79
"No, indeed, I came from a much grander place," replied the beetle; "I came from the emperor's stable, where I was born, with golden shoes on my feet.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: come, reply, bear · To what, where: grander place, stable, beetle · 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 | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 came | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 grander | advmod |
| 11 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beetle | det |
| 17 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 stable | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 emperor | det |
| 24 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stable | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 emperor | case |
| 26 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 born | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 born | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 born | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 born | aux:pass |
| 31 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 stable | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shoes | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 shoes | case |
| 34 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 shoes | amod |
| 35 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 born | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 feet | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 feet | nmod:poss |
| 38 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 shoes | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the beetle = beetle | a grander place | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the beetle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the beetle = beetle | the emperor's stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | past · passive | the beetle = beetle | with golden shoes on my feet | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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