Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 82
"None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time quite in confusion.
Who acts: mother, beetle maidens · What happens: engage, say, titter · To what, where: None · 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 (mother, beetle maidens), 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 | _ | 6 engaged | punct |
| 2 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 None | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 engaged | aux:pass |
| 6 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 engaged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 engaged | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 engaged | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tittered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tittered | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maidens | det |
| 16 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maidens | compound |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tittered | nsubj |
| 18 | tittered | titter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 tittered | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tittered | obl |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 time | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 confusion | case |
| 25 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage in a quote | present · passive | None | yet | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | frogs's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | titter | past | the beetle maidens | again; time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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