Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 161

All the longing and all the pleasure that I feel is much better than having a jewel in one's head."

Who acts: I, longing · What happens: feel, be, have · To what, where: pleasure, jewel, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, longing), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 longing	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 longing	det
3	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 better	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pleasure	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pleasure	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pleasure	det
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longing	conj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 feel	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 feel	nsubj
10	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pleasure	acl:relcl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 better	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 better	advmod
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 having	mark
15	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 better	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 jewel	det
17	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 having	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 head	case
19	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 one	case
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 having	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I	all pleasure			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	is	present	all longing and all pleasure			good property	tree rules
3	have	gerund	all longing and all pleasure not said here	a jewel	one's head		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient

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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