--- title: "It is good fortune to be of a family who have distinguished themsel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It is good fortune to be of a family who have distinguished themselves, and to possess as it were a spur in oneself to advance to all that is good. Who acts: conversation, family, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/) / 86 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 86 "It is good fortune to be of a family who have distinguished themselves, and to possess as it were a spur in oneself to advance to all that is good. **Who acts:** conversation, family, all · **What happens:** be, distinguish, possess, advance · **To what, where:** good fortune, families, oneself This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, family, all), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:155:86 # text = "It is good fortune to be of a family who have distinguished themselves, and to possess as it were a spur in oneself to advance to all that is good. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 distinguished distinguish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 possess possess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 spur spur NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 oneself oneself PRON PRP PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 nmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 advance advance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | conversation | good fortune | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | of a family | tree rules | | 3 | **distinguish** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a family | families *= family* | | | | | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute themselves=Theme | | 4 | **possess** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | conversation | | | oneself | | as a spur | tree rules | | 6 | **advance** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all | | | | | good *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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/87/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)