Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 38
I am expecting every moment to get across the fence."
Who acts: I · What happens: expect, get · To what, where: fence
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 expecting | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 expecting | aux |
| 3 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expecting | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 expecting | advcl |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 fence | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fence | det |
| 10 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expecting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present · progressive | I | moment | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | the fence | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across fence=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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