Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 20

"Ah, yes; but you have the best of it," said the clerk; "it must be so delightful to sit and write poetry.

Who acts: you, clerk, it · What happens: have, say, be, sit, write · To what, where: best, poetry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, clerk, it), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 have	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 best	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 have	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 best	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clerk	det
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 delightful	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 delightful	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 delightful	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 delightful	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 delightful	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 delightful	advmod
24	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sit	mark
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 delightful	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 write	cc
28	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sit	conj
29	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 write	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	the best		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the clerk			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	must	it		delightful property	tree rules
4	sit in a quote	to-infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write in a quote	infinitive		poetry		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme

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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