Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 66

Still, it was better to be here than in the fire, where the verses and the paper were being burnt to ashes.

What happens: be, burnt · To what, where: verses

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: 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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 here	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 here	cop
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 better	advcl
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 here	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 burnt	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 burnt	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 verses	det
16	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 burnt	nsubj:pass
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paper	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 paper	det
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 verses	conj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burnt	aux:pass
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 burnt	aux:pass
22	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fire	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 ashes	case
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 burnt	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past		still	good property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive			than the fire; here property	tree rules
3	burnt	past · passive	the verses and the paper		to ashes	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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