Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 10
You can't be always getting something new.
Who acts: You · What happens: not get · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 getting | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 getting | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 getting | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 getting | advmod |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 getting | obj |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can · progressive | You | something | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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: «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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