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description: Most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all get to be watchmen at last, and look down upon life from a height." Who acts: Most people, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 3

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Most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all get to be watchmen at last, and look down upon life from a height."

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**Who acts:** Most people, we · **What happens:** have, try, consider, get, be, look down · **To what, where:** ups, watchmen, last, height

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most people, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:135:3
# text = Most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all get to be watchmen at last, and look down upon life from a height."
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	downs	down	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | Most people *not said here* | the ups and the downs |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Eventuality |
| 3 | **consider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | watchmen |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look down** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | a height |  | upon life; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon life=Theme |

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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.

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**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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