Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 34
How could it have got into this crack?
Who acts: root · What happens: get · To what, where: crack
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (root), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 crack | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 crack | det |
| 8 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could · perfect | root | this crack | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into crack=Destination |
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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