Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 49

“That is still better than to cross the sea!

Who acts: That · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 better	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 better	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 cross	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cross	mark
8	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	csubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cross	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That				still	good property	tree rules
2	cross in a quote	to-infinitive		the sea					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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