Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 165
It will be best to conceal it."
Who acts: It · What happens: be, conceal · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 best | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 conceal | mark |
| 6 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 best | csubj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 conceal | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conceal | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conceal | to-infinitive | sword | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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