Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 59

They had something better to do than that.

Who acts: shoes · What happens: have, do · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 something	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	acl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	shoes = shoe	something					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP 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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