Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 77
Would it not be more sensible to put the house in order?
Who acts: basket · What happens: not be, put · To what, where: house, order
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sensible | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sensible | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sensible | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sensible | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 sensible | advmod |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sensible | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sensible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | would | basket | sensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | basket not said here | the house | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Destination |
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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