Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 81
It had been better for thee if thou hadst been left on the high-road, with the cold night wind to lull thee to sleep."
Who acts: form · What happens: be, leave, lull, sleep · To what, where: thou, high road, thee
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 thee | case |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | hadst | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 better | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 road | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 high | punct |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wind | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wind | amod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wind | compound |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lull | mark |
| 24 | lull | lull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wind | acl |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 lull | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 lull | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | form | for thee; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | thou | the high road | with the cold night wind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on road=Location | |||
| 3 | lull | to-infinitive | thee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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