Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 36

Ah, if we only lived in the days of tallow candles! and it does not lie so very far behind us.

Who acts: we, self · What happens: live, not lie

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, self), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 candles	case
11	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 candles	compound
12	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 days	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lie	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lie	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 lie	advmod
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 lie	advmod
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 far	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	we				day		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not lie	present · do-support	self					far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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