Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 21
“No place can be better than ours, and I have nothing to wish for!”
Who acts: place, Father Snail · What happens: be, have, wish · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, Father Snail), 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 | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 better | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 ours | case |
| 8 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 better | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wish | mark |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wish | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | no place | than ours; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Father Snail = snail | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | to-infinitive | Father Snail = snail not said here | nothing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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