Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 49
We get our news from the market-basket, but he sometimes tells us very unpleasant things about the people and the government.
Who acts: We, pleasure · What happens: get, tell · To what, where: news, market basket, unpleasant things, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, pleasure), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 news | nmod:poss |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 basket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 basket | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 market | punct |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tells | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tells | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tells | nsubj |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 tells | advmod |
| 14 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | parataxis |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tells | iobj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 unpleasant | advmod |
| 17 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tells | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 things | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 government | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 government | det |
| 24 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 people | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | We | our news | the market basket | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Theme from basket=Source | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | pleasure | unpleasant things | us | about the people and the government; sometimes property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient thing=Topic |
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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