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title: "I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself, "and now there's nothing to be done but to take them in, in return." Who acts: beetle, nothing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 89

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"I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself, "and now there's nothing to be done but to take them in, in return."

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**Who acts:** beetle, nothing · **What happens:** allow, take in, say, be, do, take · **To what, where:** beetle, food, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, nothing), 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:pg27200:8:89
# text = "I have allowed myself to be taken in," said our beetle to himself, "and now there's nothing to be done but to take them in, in return."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | our beetle *= beetle* | our beetle *= beetle* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take in** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | our beetle *= beetle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | our beetle |  | beetle |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | food |  | return |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in return=Location |

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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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