Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 72

He is better off than I am; he has large rooms, and wears a beautiful black velvet coat.

Who acts: neighbor · What happens: be, have, wear · To what, where: large rooms, beautiful black velvet coat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 better	compound:prt
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 am	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 am	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	conj
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rooms	amod
12	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wears	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wears	cc
15	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 coat	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coat	amod
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coat	amod
19	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coat	compound
20	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wears	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	neighbor		good property	tree rules
2	have	present	neighbor	large rooms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	wear	present	neighbor not said here	a beautiful black velvet coat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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