Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 3

Most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all get to be watchmen at last, and look down upon life from a height."

Who acts: Most people, we · What happens: have, try, consider, get, be, look down · To what, where: ups, watchmen, last, height

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most people, we), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 ups	cc:preconj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ups	det
8	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 try	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 downs	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 downs	det
11	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ups	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 considered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 considered	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 considered	punct
15	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	16 considered	advmod
16	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 have	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 get	advmod
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 considered	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 watchmen	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 watchmen	cop
23	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 watchmen	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 look	cc
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	advcl
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 look	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 life	case
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 height	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 height	det
34	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most people				tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	Most people not said here	the ups and the downs			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Eventuality
3	consider	participle				rightly property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	to-infinitive		watchmen	last		tree rules
6	look down	infinitive	we not said here		a height	upon life; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon life=Theme

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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