Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 6

You had better stay here with me."

Who acts: You · What happens: have, stay

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	xcomp
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stay	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stay	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	You					good property	tree rules
2	stay	infinitive	You not said here			here		with me	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location

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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