Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 213

"I could have expressed that better," thought the critic; but he did not say it aloud, which for him was SOMETHING, after all.

Who acts: critic, earth · What happens: express, think, not say, be · To what, where: critic, SOMETHING · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (critic, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 expressed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 expressed	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expressed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 expressed	aux
5	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 thought	mark
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expressed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 critic	det
12	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 say	advmod
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 expressed	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
20	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 SOMETHING	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 SOMETHING	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 which	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 SOMETHING	cop
26	SOMETHING	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 say	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 SOMETHING	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	express in a quote	could · perfect	the critic = critic				tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the critic				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	earth	critic		aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is a	past		SOMETHING	after all		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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