Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 65
I wish to Heaven I could walk in and take a trip right through the hearts of those present!”
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, walk in, take · To what, where: Heaven, trip, hearts
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Heaven | case |
| 4 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wish | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 walk | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 walk | aux |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 walk | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walk | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trip | det |
| 12 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 hearts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hearts | det |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 present | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 present | det |
| 19 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hearts | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | Heaven | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | walk in | could | I | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | I not said here | a trip | the hearts of that present | right property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme |
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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