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title: The beetle woke up with the noise and would have been glad to creep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The beetle woke up with the noise and would have been glad to creep into the earth for shelter, but he could not. Who acts: beetle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 38

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The beetle woke up with the noise and would have been glad to creep into the earth for shelter, but he could not.

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**Who acts:** beetle · **What happens:** wake up, be, creep · **To what, where:** earth

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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.

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**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:pg27200:8:38
# text = The beetle woke up with the noise and would have been glad to creep into the earth for shelter, but he could not.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | the beetle |  |  |  |  | with the noise | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | the beetle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **creep** | to-infinitive | the beetle *not said here* |  |  | the earth for shelter |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination |

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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.

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**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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