Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 92
"Oh," said the other beetles, "this fellow that we have received into our family is nothing but a complete vagabond.
Who acts: other beetles, fellow · What happens: say, receive, be · To what, where: fellow, family, nothing · 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 (other beetles, fellow), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beetles | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beetles | amod |
| 8 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 fellow | det |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 received | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 received | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 received | aux |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 nothing | cop |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 beetles | parataxis |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 vagabond | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 vagabond | det |
| 24 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vagabond | amod |
| 25 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other beetles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | receive in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this fellow | our family | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this fellow | nothing | tree rules |
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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