Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 12
First the personages, and then we will get the play ready.
Who acts: we · What happens: get · To what, where: play
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 personages | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 personages | det |
| 3 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 get | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 personages | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 play | det |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 personages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | we | the play | then | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=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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