Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 46
Such was my wish, yea such When hardly three feet high, I longed for much.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, long · To what, where: Such wish
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 high | punct |
| 6 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 7 such | discourse |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 high | amod |
| 8 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 high | advmod |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feet | nummod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 high | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 longed | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 longed | nsubj |
| 15 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 high | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 much | case |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 longed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | my Such wish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | long | past | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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