Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 86
"It is good fortune to be of a family who have distinguished themselves, and to possess as it were a spur in oneself to advance to all that is good.
Who acts: conversation, family, all · What happens: be, distinguish, possess, advance · To what, where: good fortune, families, oneself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, family, all), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortune | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fortune | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fortune | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fortune | amod |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 family | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 family | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fortune | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 distinguished | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 distinguished | aux |
| 13 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 family | acl:relcl |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 distinguished | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 possess | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 possess | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 possess | mark |
| 18 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fortune | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 spur | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spur | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spur | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spur | det |
| 23 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possess | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 oneself | case |
| 25 | oneself | oneself | PRON | PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 spur | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 advance | mark |
| 27 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 possess | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 good | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 good | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 good | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 good | cop |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 advance | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | conversation | good fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | of a family | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | distinguish in a quote | present · perfect | a family | families = family | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute themselves=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess in a quote | to-infinitive | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | conversation | oneself | as a spur | tree rules | |||
| 6 | advance in a quote | to-infinitive | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | all | good 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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