Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 47
Oh, were I rich! an officer were I, With sword, and uniform, and plume so high.
Who acts: I · What happens: be
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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 rich | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sword | csubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 officer | det |
| 8 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sword | cop |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sword | punct |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uniform | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uniform | cc |
| 16 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sword | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plume | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 plume | cc |
| 19 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sword | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 high | advmod |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plume | amod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | with sword and uniform and plume | 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: «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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