Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 159

The world is not so bad after all, if you know how to take things as they come."

Who acts: world, you, things · What happens: not be, know, take, come · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, you, things), 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	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bad	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bad	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 know	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	parataxis
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 take	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	ccomp
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 take	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the world		after all	bad property	tree rules
2	know a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	take	to-infinitive		things			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	come	present	things = thing				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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