Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 62
“Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would not here written find!
Who acts: Oft, you · What happens: be, write, pacify · To what, where: calm peace, find, mind
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 (Oft, you), 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 | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 rich | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 peace | case |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peace | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 peace | cc |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rich | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peace | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grief | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grief | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peace | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 written | nsubj |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 written | advmod |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 written | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 here | advmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 written | advmod |
| 21 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 grief | acl:relcl |
| 22 | find | find | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 written | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Oft | calm peace of mind and My grief | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write in a quote | would | you | find | here | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent find=Theme | ||
| 3 | pacify in a quote | mind | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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