Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 106

It is really pitiable, particularly when one gets into the hands of a little blackguard, perfect in all sorts of cruelty to animals: all I should like to know is, how the story will end.”

Who acts: lark, one, all, story · What happens: be, get, like, know, sort · To what, where: hands, cruelty

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lark, one, all, story), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pitiable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pitiable	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 pitiable	advmod
4	pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
6	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gets	advmod
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pitiable	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gets	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 blackguard	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blackguard	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blackguard	amod
16	blackguard	blackguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perfect	punct
18	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blackguard	amod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sorts	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sorts	det
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 perfect	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 cruelty	case
23	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sorts	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 animals	case
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cruelty	nmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 like	nsubj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pitiable	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 know	mark
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 end	cop
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 end	punct
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 end	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 story	det
37	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 end	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 end	aux
39	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pitiable	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 pitiable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	lark			pitiable property	tree rules
2	get	present	one		the hands of a little blackguard	particularly property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hand=Destination
3	like	should	all				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	all not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	the story			end property	tree rules
6	sort			cruelty to animals			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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