Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 114

Oh! if she had only been able to confide in him and tell him of her grief.

Who acts: word · What happens: be, confide, tell · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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	_	8 able	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 able	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 able	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 able	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 able	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 confide	mark
10	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 confide	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 confide	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 grief	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grief	nmod:poss
18	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	word		able property	tree rules
2	confide speech: other	to-infinitive	word not said here		in king	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	word not said here	king	of word's grief	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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