Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 98

When they saw him they took him up and turned him over and over, looking very learned all the time, especially one, who was a boy. "

Who acts: third · What happens: see, take up, turn, look, learn, be · To what, where: person, one, boy

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 (third), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	obj
12	over	over	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 over	cc
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 over	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 turned	advcl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 learned	advmod
18	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looking	ccomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 time	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learned	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
23	especially	especially	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 boy	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 boy	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 boy	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 boy	det
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	third	person				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	take up	past	third		person			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	turn	past	third not said here	person			over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result
4	look	gerund	third not said here	one and a boy				tree rules
5	learn	past	third not said here			time		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		a boy				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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