Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 60
But what compensation did he get for having been imprisoned a whole year, and shut out from all communication with his fellow creatures?
Who acts: compensation · What happens: get, imprison, shut out · To what, where: communication
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compensation), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 get | obj |
| 3 | compensation | compensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 imprisoned | mark |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 imprisoned | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 10 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 get | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 year | amod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imprisoned | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shut | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shut | cc |
| 16 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 get | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 shut | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 communication | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 communication | det |
| 20 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shut | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 creatures | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 creatures | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creatures | amod |
| 24 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shut | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | compensation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | imprison | gerund · perfect · passive | compensation not said here | year | vn confine-92 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | shut out | participle | compensation not said here | all communication | with compensation's fellow creatures | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with creature=Instrument |
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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