Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 43
Something better and more beautiful is to come after, or the trees would not be so decked out.
Who acts: Something · What happens: be, not deck out · To what, where: trees
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 (Something), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 come | nsubj |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Something | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beautiful | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 better | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | after | after | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decked | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 decked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 decked | obl |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 decked | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 decked | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decked | aux:pass |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 decked | advmod |
| 18 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 come | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 decked | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Something | after, come property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not deck out | would · passive | Something not said here | the trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP» |
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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