Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 67
My town is just like a bottle; and one gets in by the neck, and by the neck one must get out again!
Who acts: town, one · What happens: be, get in, get out
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, one), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 town | nmod:poss |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bottle | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 bottle | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gets | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bottle | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 gets | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neck | det |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | compound |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gets | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 bottle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My town | like a bottle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in | present | one | by the neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get out | must | one not said here | again | by the neck one; out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/67/