Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 55

Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?

Who acts: something, splendor · What happens: follow, ornament · To what, where: me

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 (something, splendor), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 follow	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 follow	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 something	advmod
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 follow	nsubj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 something	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 something	punct
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 something	appos
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 grander	advmod
9	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 something	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 follow	aux
12	surely	surely	ADV	_	13 follow	advmod
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ornament	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 ornament	cc
16	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	20 ornament	advmod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 ornament	aux
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ornament	nsubj
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 ornament	advmod
20	ornament	ornament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 follow	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ornament	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	future	something					surely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ornament	should	splendor		me			thus, wherefore property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=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: «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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