Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 124
Nothing could be more charming.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: be · To what, where: more charming
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 charming | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 charming | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 charming | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 charming | amod |
| 5 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | Nothing | more charming | tree rules |
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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