Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 81

Then the beetle stepped down into the rich mud, where sat three young-lady beetles, who tittered, because they did not know what to say.

Who acts: beetle, three lady beetles, frogs · What happens: step down, sit, titter, not know, say · To what, where: rich mud, three lady beetles · 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, three lady beetles, frogs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	nsubj
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 stepped	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 mud	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mud	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mud	amod
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	parataxis
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 beetles	nummod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 young	punct
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beetles	compound
17	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tittered	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 tittered	nsubj
20	tittered	titter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beetles	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 know	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sat	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 say	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 know	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	step down	past	the beetle		the rich mud	then	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past		three lady beetles			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beetle=Theme
3	titter	past	three lady beetles				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	past · do-support	frogs = frog				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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