Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 56
He will get nothing but a grave!
Who acts: man · What happens: get · To what, where: nothing
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 grave | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | man | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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