English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 27
“How did you get such thick thick knees?”
Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: such thick thick knees
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knees | amod |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knees | amod |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knees | amod |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | such thick thick knees | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knee=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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