Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 36

Now I shall be of some use in the world, as everyone ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.

Who acts: I, world · What happens: use, be · To what, where: world, only way

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 (I, world), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 use	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 some	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 some	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 some	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ought	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 ought	mark
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 ought	nsubj
14	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 be	mark
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ought	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obl:unmarked
23	to	to	PART	_	25 happy	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	cop
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	I		the world	now		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	world	the only way				tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	I not said here				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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