Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 152
The black earth--the dark grave--was the best thing for him now.
Who acts: black earth · What happens: be · To what, where: best thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black earth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 earth | amod |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thing | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 grave | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grave | amod |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 earth | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 earth | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thing | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thing | nmod |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 thing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the black earth and the dark grave | the best thing | now | for One | 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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