Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 26

“Oh, were I but old enough to fly across the sea!

What happens: be, fly · To what, where: Stork, sea

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 I	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 I	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 I	cop
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 old	nsubj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 old	cc
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fly	mark
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 old	advcl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fly	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		the Stork = stork					tree rules
2	fly in a quote	to-infinitive				the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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