Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 51

I'd sooner be any place in the world than here.

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: place, world

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 place	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 place	aux
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 place	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 place	cop
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 here	case
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 place	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	I	any place		the world		soon 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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