Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 111
Oh! most happy were I, could I but reach one aim--could but reach the happiest of all!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: I, one aim, happiest
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 happy | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 happy | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reach | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 reach | cc |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happy | parataxis |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 aim | nummod |
| 13 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 reach | punct |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 reach | aux |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 reach | cc |
| 17 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reach | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 happiest | det |
| 19 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 reach | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 happiest | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | could | I | one aim | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | could | I not said here | the happiest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent happy=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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