Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 3

The most difficult part of the body to get through was the head; and in this case, as it often happens in the world, the small heads were the most fortunate.

Who acts: it, small heads · What happens: get through, be, happen · To what, where: head, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, small heads), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 difficult	advmod
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 part	csubj
10	through	through	ADV	_	13 head	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 head	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 case	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 case	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 case	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 case	det
18	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 happens	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 happens	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 happens	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 happens	advmod
23	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 part	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 happens	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fortunate	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heads	det
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heads	amod
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fortunate	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fortunate	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fortunate	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 fortunate	advmod
34	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 happens	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get through	to-infinitive					vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the head		through property	tree rules
3	happen	present	it		the world	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
4	is	past	the small heads			fortunate 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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