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title: In the mean time the beetle, who had sailed across the ditch on a ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mean time the beetle, who had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf, had been journeying on the other side. 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 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 96

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In the mean time the beetle, who had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf, had been journeying on the other side.

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**Who acts:** beetle · **What happens:** sail, journey · **To what, where:** ditch, other side

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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:pg27200:8:96
# text = In the mean time the beetle, who had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf, had been journeying on the other side.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past · perfect | the beetle |  |  | the ditch on a cabbage leaf |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across ditch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **journey** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | the other side | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |

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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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