Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 86
"All the better, for we shall be able to look at them in their beds more safely.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, look · To what, where: beds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 better | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 better | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 better | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beds | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | obl |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 safely | advmod |
| 19 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | we | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | gentlemen's beds | at gentlemen = gentleman; safely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
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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