Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 166
"The best thing," thought Ib; "the very best thing for me,--and found in the earth!
Who acts: Ib · What happens: think, find · To what, where: best thing, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ib), 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 | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 best | advmod |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 thing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thing | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ib | the best thing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | participle | the best thing for me not said here | the earth | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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