Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 197
This must be the best watering-place in existence.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: best watering place, existence
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 place | amod |
| 6 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 watering | punct |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 existence | case |
| 10 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | This | the best watering place | existence | 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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