Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 7
After all, it is just as well that there are some who can be happy.
Who acts: linnet · What happens: be
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 (linnet), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 happy | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 happy | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 happy | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 are | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | cop |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | linnet | after all | happy 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: «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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