Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 16

The part of the body most difficult to manage on such occasions was, no doubt, the head; here, as is so often the case in the world, long-headed people get through best.

Who acts: part, headed people · What happens: be, manage, get through · To what, where: such occasions, case, world

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, headed people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 difficult	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 body	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 difficult	advmod
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 manage	mark
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 difficult	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 occasions	case
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 occasions	amod
12	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 manage	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 difficult	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 doubt	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 doubt	det
16	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 difficult	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 doubt	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 case	punct
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 case	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	21 here	fixed
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 case	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 case	advmod
26	often	often	ADV	_	28 case	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 case	det
28	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 get	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 case	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 headed	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 long	punct
35	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 get	nsubj
37	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 difficult	parataxis
38	through	through	ADV	_	37 get	advmod
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 get	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the part of the body			no doubt and the head obl; difficult property	tree rules
2	manage	to-infinitive	the part of the body not said here		such occasions		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		the case	the world	often property	tree rules
4	get through	present	headed people			good, through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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