Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 8
I get my universal history from the theatre, my geography, and my knowledge of men.
Who acts: I · What happens: get · To what, where: universal history, theatre
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 (I), 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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 history | nmod:poss |
| 4 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 history | amod |
| 5 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 theatre | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 theatre | det |
| 8 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 geography | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 geography | nmod:poss |
| 11 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 theatre | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowledge | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knowledge | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knowledge | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | I | my universal history | the theatre and my geography | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent history=Theme from theatre=Source |
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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