Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 119

Better have something in your inside while you are alive, than to be made a parade of after you are dead.

Who acts: Better, you · What happens: have, be, make · To what, where: something, inside, parade

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Better, you), 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	Better	good	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 have	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 inside	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 inside	nmod:poss
6	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nmod
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 alive	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 alive	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	15 made	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 alive	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 parade	det
17	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 dead	case
19	after	after	ADP	_	22 dead	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parade	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Better	something	your inside		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	is	present	you			alive property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	a parade			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: parade=Product
4	is	present	you			dead property	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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