Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 59
I'd rather walk barefoot than drive with him in a coach!"
Who acts: I · What happens: walk, drive · To what, where: barefoot, coach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 walk | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 walk | advmod |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | barefoot | barefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 drive | mark |
| 7 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walk | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drive | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coach | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coach | det |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drive | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | would | I | barefoot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barefoot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | I not said here | a coach | with Copenhagen | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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