Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 2
Very few members of our family ever had the good fortune to get into the dining-room, much less the store-room.
Who acts: few members · What happens: have, get · To what, where: good fortune, dining room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few members), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 few | advmod |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 members | amod |
| 3 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 members | nmod |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 had | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fortune | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fortune | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 16 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dining | punct |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 room | punct |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 less | advmod |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 room | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 23 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 store | punct |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | few members of our family | the good fortune | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | few members of our family not said here | the good fortune not said here | the dining room and the store room | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
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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