Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 28
So I was to be got rid of in the darkness, and be again insulted in broad daylight.
What happens: be, insult · To what, where: I, broad daylight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | aux:pass |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 darkness | det |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 insulted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 insulted | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 insulted | aux:pass |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 insulted | advmod |
| 16 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 daylight | case |
| 18 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daylight | amod |
| 19 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 insulted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | I | get, rid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | insult | infinitive · passive | broad daylight | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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