Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 57
Oh, I wish I were safe back on the table again, under the looking glass; I shall never be happy till I am safe back again.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, be, look, not be · To what, where: looking glass, table · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. 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 wish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 safe | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 wish | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glass | punct |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 glass | amod |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 happy | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 happy | cop |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 safe | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 safe | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 safe | cop |
| 27 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happy | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 again | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 safe | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | the looking glass | again | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | the table | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | not is | shall | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | again | safe property | 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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