Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 102
There's no place like home, even if it's a cellar."
Who acts: place · What happens: be · To what, where: cellar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cellar | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 cellar | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 cellar | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cellar | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cellar | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cellar | det |
| 13 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cellar | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cellar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no place like home | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | place | a cellar | 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: «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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