Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 51
It got into the papers, it was printed; and there is no doubt about it, one little feather may easily grow into five hens.
Who acts: story, doubt, one little feather · What happens: get, print, be, grow · To what, where: papers, story
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 (story, doubt, one little feather), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 papers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 papers | det |
| 5 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 printed | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 printed | aux:pass |
| 9 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | advcl | |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 is | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 doubt | det |
| 15 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doubt | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grow | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 feather | nummod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feather | amod |
| 21 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 grow | aux |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 24 grow | advmod |
| 24 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 is | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 hens | case |
| 26 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hens | nummod |
| 27 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grow | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | story | the papers | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into paper=Destination | ||||
| 2 | past · passive | story | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | no doubt about story | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | may | one little feather | into five hens result; easily property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hen=Result |
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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