Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 76
Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being--with his desires and with his hopes perform the weary pilgrimage of life!
Who acts: I, hopes, watchman · What happens: be, exchange, perform, hope · To what, where: I, weary pilgrimage
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, hopes, watchman), 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 | _ | 4 happier | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 happier | advmod |
| 4 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 I | cop |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happier | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exchange | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 exchange | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 exchange | nsubj |
| 10 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happier | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exchange | obl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 desires | nmod:poss |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 desires | cop |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 desires | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 desires | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 desires | nmod:poss |
| 18 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exchange | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 perform | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hopes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 perform | nsubj |
| 23 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 exchange | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pilgrimage | det |
| 25 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pilgrimage | amod |
| 26 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 perform | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pilgrimage | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 happier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exchange | could | I | with watchman | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | with my desires | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | perform | present | watchman's hopes | the weary pilgrimage of life | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope | watchman | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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