Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 9
Out of the French pieces I get to know life in Paris--slippery, but exceedingly interesting.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, know · To what, where: French pieces, life, Paris
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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pieces | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pieces | amod |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Paris | case |
| 12 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 slippery | punct |
| 14 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 interesting | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 interesting | cc |
| 17 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 18 interesting | advmod |
| 18 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slippery | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | I | the French pieces | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | I not said here | life | Paris | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=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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