The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 24

Ah, well, some people have all the luck!'

Who acts: people · What happens: have · To what, where: luck

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	well	well	INTJ	_	7 have	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 luck	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 luck	det
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some people	all luck					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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