--- title: His wings were dry now, so they carried him to a great distance, til… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: His wings were dry now, so they carried him to a great distance, till at last he reached a hothouse, where a sash of the glass roof was partly open, so he quietly slipped in and buried himself in the warm earth. " Who acts: wings, beetle, sash. 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" **Who acts:** wings, beetle, sash · **What happens:** be, carry, reach, slip in, bury · **To what, where:** beetle, hothouse, last, warm earth 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 (wings, beetle, sash), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:8:104 # text = His wings were dry now, so they carried him to a great distance, till at last he reached a hothouse, where a sash of the glass roof was partly open, so he quietly slipped in and buried himself in the warm earth. " 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hothouse hothouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sash sash NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 partly partly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 39 in in ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 42 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | beetle's wings | | | | now | dry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | past | wings *= wing* | beetle | | | | to a great distance | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to distance=Destination | | 3 | **reach** | past | beetle | a hothouse | | last | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hothouse=Theme at last=Asset | | 4 | **is** | past | a sash of the glass roof | | | | | open, partly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **slip in** | past | beetle | | | | | quietly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **bury** | past | beetle *not said here* | beetle | | the warm earth | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in earth=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/105/) - ↑ back to [The Beetle Who Went on His Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/)