The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 37

"That is to hear the better, my child."

Who acts: That · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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	_	5 hear	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 hear	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 better	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hear	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That					good, hear 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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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