Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 18

There is a difference indeed, and so there ought to be, or we should all be equals."

Who acts: difference, we · What happens: be · To what, where: equals

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ought	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 ought	advmod
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ought	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 equals	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 equals	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 equals	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 equals	aux
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 equals	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 equals	cop
19	equals	equal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 equals	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a difference		there	indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	to-infinitive	a difference not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	should	we	equals		all 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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