Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 38

It would be much better than crossing the sea.

Who acts: dew · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 better	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 crossing	mark
7	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 better	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossing	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	dew					good property	tree rules
2	cross	gerund	dew not said here	the sea					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=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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