Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 22

One is often strangely placed in this world; but now I have at least managed to get one of my people within the pale, and indeed into a buttonhole!"

Who acts: I · What happens: place, have, manage, get · To what, where: One, world, least

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 placed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	aux:pass
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 placed	advmod
4	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	5 placed	advmod
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 least	case
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 managed	obl
16	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 have	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 managed	xcomp
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 get	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 people	nmod:poss
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	within	within	ADP	_	25 pale	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pale	det
25	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 buttonhole	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 buttonhole	cc
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 buttonhole	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 buttonhole	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 buttonhole	det
31	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 buttonhole	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 buttonhole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	present · passive		One	this world		into a buttonhole; often, strangely property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in world=Destination
2	have	present	I			now		tree rules
3	manage	participle	I not said here		least			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	one of my people			within the pale	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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