Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 64
No, indeed, I see you are really ill; the best thing for me to do is to lead you home."
Who acts: I, you, best thing · What happens: see, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you, best thing), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ill | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ill | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 ill | advmod |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lead | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 thing | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lead | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lead | mark |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 lead | obj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 lead | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing for me not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the best thing for me | home, lead property | 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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