Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 24

"There can be nothing better than we have here," said the father-snail; "I wish for nothing more."

Who acts: we, father snail · What happens: be, have, say, wish · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, father snail), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 nothing	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 said	nsubj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	advcl
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 have	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snail	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snail	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
17	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wish	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wish	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
21	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 wish	obl
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 wish	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		nothing			tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	we		here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the father snail				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish in a quote	present	the father snail = snail			for nothing	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme

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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