Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 53

Then was I rich, but not in gold, poor me!

Who acts: I, gold · What happens: be · To what, where: me

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, gold), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rich	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poor	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 poor	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gold	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 poor	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poor	punct
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 poor	iobj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				then	rich property	tree rules
2	be		gold		me				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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