Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 60
That was the thanks she got for having got him a place in the flies.
Who acts: That, aunt · What happens: be, get, have · To what, where: thanks, place, Judgment
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, aunt), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thanks | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanks | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thanks | det |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanks | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 having | mark |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 got | advcl |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanks | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 flies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flies | det |
| 15 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the thanks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | aunt | the thanks not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thanks=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | a place | Judgment | in the flies | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary place=Theme |
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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