Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 47
It is getting better and better," he cried. "
Who acts: rara, Jack · What happens: get, cry
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rara, Jack), 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 | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 getting | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 better | cc |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 better | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | rara | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Jack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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