The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 44

Then comes something better, something still more beautiful, else why should they dress us up?

Who acts: swallows · What happens: come, dress up · To what, where: something, us

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 comes	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 something	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 something	conj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dress	punct
11	else	else	ADV	_	15 dress	advmod
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 dress	advmod
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 dress	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dress	nsubj
15	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	parataxis
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 dress	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 dress	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		something			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme
2	dress up	should	swallows = swallow	us				else property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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