Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 37
There is another that is perhaps empty, and would be all the better for cleaning out.
Who acts: another · What happens: be, clean out
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 empty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 empty | cop |
| 6 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 empty | advmod |
| 7 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 another | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 better | cc |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | cop |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 better | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 better | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 cleaning | mark |
| 16 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 better | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cleaning | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | another | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | empty, perhaps property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | would | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clean out | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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