Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 51

There is nothing so beautiful on earth as it is here.

Who acts: nothing, earth · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, earth), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 is	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 earth	case
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beautiful	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 here	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 here	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 here	cop
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 beautiful	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	earth					here 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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