Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 16

You have hardly been in service a week, and are already half worn out.

Who acts: You · What happens: have, be, wear out · To what, where: service

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 service	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 service	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 service	case
6	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 worn	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worn	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 worn	aux:pass
12	already	already	ADV	_	14 worn	advmod
13	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 worn	advmod
14	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 worn	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You		week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle		service		hardly property	tree rules
3	wear out	present · passive	You not said here			half property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»

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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