Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 96
In the mean time the beetle, who had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf, had been journeying on the other side.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: sail, journey · To what, where: ditch, other side
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 journeying | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beetle | det |
| 6 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sailed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sailed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sailed | aux |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 beetle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 ditch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ditch | det |
| 13 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sailed | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 leaf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 leaf | det |
| 16 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leaf | compound |
| 17 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ditch | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 journeying | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 journeying | aux |
| 21 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 side | amod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 journeying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 journeying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · perfect | the beetle | the ditch on a cabbage leaf | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across ditch=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | journey | past · perfect · progressive | the other side | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
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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