Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 41
Nobody got anything by it; indeed, no one even heard what the good thing was.
Who acts: Nobody, one, good thing · What happens: get, hear, be · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, one, good thing), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Nobody | anything | by idea | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | past | no one | indeed property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the good thing | tree rules |
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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