Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 53

I only wished I had them all in my box again, and that I had never been their director.

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, have, not be · To what, where: beings, box, director · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. 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 wished	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 box	nmod:poss
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 director	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 director	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 director	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 director	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 director	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 director	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 director	cop
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 director	nmod:poss
20	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wish	past	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have	past	I	beings = being	my box	again	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	not is a	past · perfect	I	beings's director			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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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