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title: A beetle came creeping forth from the stable, where the farrier had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A beetle came creeping forth from the stable, where the farrier had been shoeing the horse. " Who acts: beetle, farrier. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 6

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A beetle came creeping forth from the stable, where the farrier had been shoeing the horse. "

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**Who acts:** beetle, farrier · **What happens:** come, creep, shoe · **To what, where:** stable, horse

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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, farrier), 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:pg27200:8:6
# text = A beetle came creeping forth from the stable, where the farrier had been shoeing the horse. "
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	farrier	farrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	shoeing	shoe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a beetle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | a beetle *not said here* |  |  | the stable |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stable=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shoe** | past · perfect · progressive | the farrier |  | the horse |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=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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