The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 13

It is better to die than to be a coward.’

What happens: be, die

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	expl
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	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	csubj
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 coward	case
7	to	to	PART	_	10 coward	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 coward	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coward	det
10	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	present	good property	tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive	than a coward	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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