Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 92

I only wish I were already on the upper bank.”

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, be · To what, where: upper bank · Speech: someone speaks here

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	3 wish	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wish	advmod
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bank	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bank	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	10 bank	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
9	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bank	amod
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	I			the upper bank			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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