Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 89

"I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself, "and now there's nothing to be done but to take them in, in return."

Who acts: beetle, nothing · What happens: allow, take in, say, be, do, take · To what, where: beetle, food, return · 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, nothing), 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	_	4 allowed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 allowed	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 taken	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 taken	aux:pass
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allowed	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 taken	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 allowed	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 allowed	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beetle	nmod:poss
14	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 's	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 's	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 's	expl
22	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 's	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 done	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux:pass
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nothing	acl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 take	obj
31	in	in	ADV	_	29 take	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 return	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 return	case
34	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 's	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 's	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	allow in a quote	present · perfect · passive		our beetle = beetle	our beetle = beetle			tree rules
2	take in not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	our beetle = beetle not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
3	say speech: assert	past	our beetle		beetle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	nothing			there	now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»
6	take in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	food		return		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in return=Location

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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