Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 6

"Had you not better first try to take down the moon?

What happens: have, take down · To what, where: you, moon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Had	punct
2	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Had	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 try	amod
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 try	amod
7	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Had	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 take	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		you					tree rules
2	take down in a quote	to-infinitive		the moon					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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