Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 56
Something better, something still grander must follow--but what?
Who acts: Something · What happens: follow
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), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 grander | advmod |
| 6 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 something | amod |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 follow | aux |
| 8 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 follow | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must | Something | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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