--- title: The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it to joy and felicity." Who acts: stream, us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/45/) [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/) / [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) / 45 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 45 The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it to joy and felicity." **Who acts:** stream, us · **What happens:** be, let, flow on · **To what, where:** stream, us This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, us), 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:pg27200:63:45 # text = The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it to joy and felicity." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 on on ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 felicity felicity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the stream of life | a stream | | | | of happiness | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flow on** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | with joy and felicity | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/46/) - ↑ back to [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/)