Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 73

Well, perhaps we had better pass over the next day.

Who acts: we · What happens: have · To what, where: better pass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pass	amod
7	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	we	better pass			over the next day	perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=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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