Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 7

They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that's a good beginning for drones.

Who acts: people, that · What happens: begin, go, be · To what, where: New Year, bed, good beginning

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begin	nsubj
2	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Year	det
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Year	compound
5	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begin	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 begin	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beginning	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beginning	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 beginning	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 beginning	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beginning	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beginning	amod
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begin	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 drones	case
18	drones	drone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beginning	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	present	people	the New Year			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	people not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	that	a good beginning		for drones	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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