Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 22

I heard it with my own ears, and one has to hear a great deal before they fall off.

Who acts: I, one, ears · What happens: hear, have, fall off · To what, where: word, great deal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, ears), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 ears	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ears	amod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 has	cc
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deal	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deal	amod
16	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 fall	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fall	nsubj
19	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	advcl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 fall	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	word	with my own ears	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	have	present	one			tree rules
3	hear	to-infinitive	one not said here	a great deal		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
4	fall off	present	ears = ear			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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