Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 113

In such an hour it is easy to forget that one has spent twenty years in a loft, and a good thing it is to be able to do so.

Who acts: one, light, good thing · What happens: be, forget, spend, thing, do · To what, where: loft · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, light, good thing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 hour	det:predet
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 easy	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 forget	mark
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	csubj
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spent	aux
13	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 forget	ccomp
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spent	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 loft	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 loft	det
18	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 able	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 able	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 able	nsubj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	28 able	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 easy	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			hour	easy property	tree rules
2	forget	to-infinitive					tree rules
3	spend	present · perfect	that one	a loft	year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	thing		light				tree rules
5	is	present	a good thing			able property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	a good thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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