Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 85
But of course the beetle's intentions were serious, and after a while our friend was engaged.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: be, engage, intend · To what, where: friend
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 serious | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 intentions | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 of | fixed |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beetle | det |
| 5 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 beetle | case |
| 7 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 serious | obl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 serious | cop |
| 9 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 engaged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 engaged | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 engaged | obl |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 engaged | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 engaged | aux:pass |
| 18 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 serious | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 serious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of the beetle's intentions; serious property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | our friend | while | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | intend | the beetle | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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