Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 24

To sit at one's ease and poetise--that is a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master.

Who acts: that, everybody, something, you · What happens: sit, poetise, be, have, say · To what, where: ease, pleasure, something, you, own master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, everybody, something, you), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 sit	mark
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 ease	case
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ease	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poetise	cc
8	poetise	poetise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	conj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 pleasure	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 pleasure	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pleasure	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pleasure	det
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	parataxis
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 has	obj
18	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 something	amod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreeable	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 master	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 master	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 master	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 master	cop
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 master	advmod
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 master	amod
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	to-infinitive				one's ease		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
2	poetise	infinitive						tree rules
3	is a	present	that	a pleasure				tree rules
4	have	present	everybody	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	something not said here		you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
6	is a	present	you	your own master			always 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: «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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