Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 75
It always went too fast, but that is better than to be lagging behind.
Who acts: servant, that · What happens: go, be, lag behind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 better | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 better | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | cop |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 lagging | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lagging | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lagging | aux |
| 14 | lagging | lag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 better | advcl |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 lagging | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | servant | always, fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lag behind | to-infinitive · progressive | that not said here | behind property | 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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