Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 31

“Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old clothespress, ugh!”

Who acts: chairs · What happens: creak, get · To what, where: gout

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chairs), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 creak	punct
2	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 creak	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ugh	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 creak	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 creak	nsubj
6	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 creak	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 creak	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 creak	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gout	det
14	gout	gout	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clothespress	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 clothespress	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clothespress	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothespress	amod
19	clothespress	clothespress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creak	punct
21	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 creak	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 creak	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 creak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak in a quote	present	chairs = chair				now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	get in a quote	shall	chairs = chair	the gout				like the old clothespress; certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gout=Stimulus

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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