Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 86

The mother gave them her blessing, and all the other beetles cried "hurrah."

Who acts: mother, other beetles · What happens: give, cry, bless · To what, where: blessing, friends, hurrah

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, other beetles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blessing	nmod:poss
6	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 beetles	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beetles	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beetles	amod
12	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
15	hurrah	hurrah	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	the mother	mother's blessing	friends = friend	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	all other beetles	hurrah		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic
3	bless		mother			nom blessing «act 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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