Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 22

"Oh, how I wish I were tall enough to go on the sea," said the fir-tree. "

Who acts: fir tree · What happens: wish, be, go, say · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fir tree), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 wish	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wish	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tall	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tall	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	ccomp
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 tall	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tall	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fir	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	the fir tree = tree			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	past	the fir tree = tree		enough, tall property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	the fir tree = tree not said here	the sea		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sea=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the fir tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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