Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 108
I want something better than what is but what is fled in an instant.
Who acts: I · What happens: want, flee · To what, where: something, instant
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 want | obj |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 but | cop |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fled | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fled | aux:pass |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 what | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | something | good property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | |||
| 2 | flee | present · passive | a instant | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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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