Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 85
Could I exchange my nature with any other creature, I fain would be such a happy little lark!”
Who acts: I · What happens: exchange, fain, be · To what, where: nature, happy little lark
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 exchange | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 exchange | nsubj |
| 3 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nature | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exchange | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 creature | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 creature | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exchange | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fain | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fain | nsubj |
| 12 | fain | fain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 exchange | conj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lark | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lark | cop |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 lark | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lark | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lark | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lark | amod |
| 19 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fain | ccomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 exchange | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 exchange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exchange | could | I | my nature | with any other creature | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent nature=Theme with creature=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fain | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | I not said here | such happy little lark | 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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