Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 59
A Russian bath would be a very good thing to begin with.
Who acts: Russian bath · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: good thing
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 (Russian bath), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bath | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bath | amod |
| 3 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 begin | mark |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 begin | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | a Russian bath | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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