Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 51

How happy to be free, even barefooted and in ragged clothes!"

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 happy	advmod
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 free	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 free	cop
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happy	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 barefooted	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 barefooted	advmod
8	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happy	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clothes	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 clothes	case
11	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clothes	amod
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 barefooted	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 clothes	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 clothes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						free 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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