Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 15
We cannot expect to be happy always," said the flax; "by experiencing evil as well as good, we become wise."
Who acts: We · What happens: not expect, be, say, experience, become · To what, where: flax · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 expect | advmod |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 happy | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | cop |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 expect | xcomp |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 happy | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flax | det |
| 13 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 experiencing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 experiencing | punct |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 experiencing | mark |
| 17 | experiencing | experience | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 experiencing | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 good | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evil | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 become | nsubj |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | can | We | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | always, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the flax | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | experience | gerund | evil property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | become | present | we | wise property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/34/15/