Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 2
It takes years to acquire great knowledge.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, acquire · To what, where: great knowledge
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 takes | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 acquire | mark |
| 5 | acquire | acquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 takes | advcl |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knowledge | amod |
| 7 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acquire | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | It | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | acquire | to-infinitive | great knowledge | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme |
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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