Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 193
They are better off than we are; the dead return no more.
Who acts: walls, we · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 better | compound:prt |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 return | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | cop |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 return | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 return | amod |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 return | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | walls = wall | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | we | than the dead return | tree rules |
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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