Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 40

Oh! were I but loose; my dizziness would then cease; oh, were my head but loose!”

Who acts: I, dizziness · What happens: be, cease · To what, where: head

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dizziness), 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	_	6 loose	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loose	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 loose	nsubj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 loose	cc
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cease	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dizziness	nmod:poss
9	dizziness	dizziness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cease	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cease	aux
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 cease	advmod
12	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loose	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
14	oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 head	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 oh	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 head	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loose	conj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 loose	cc
20	loose	loose	ADV	_	18 head	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 loose	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 loose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			loose property	tree rules
2	cease	would	my dizziness		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	past	I not said here	my head			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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