Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 19

How oft, in youth's bright hour, When youthful pleasures banish every care, I longed for riches but to gain a power, The sword and plume and uniform to wear!

Who acts: youthful pleasures, I · What happens: banish, long, gain, wear · To what, where: care, power

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youthful pleasures, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 oft	advmod
2	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hour	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 hour	case
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hour	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 youth	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 longed	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hour	punct
10	When	when	SCONJ	_	13 banish	mark
11	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pleasures	amod
12	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 banish	nsubj
13	banish	banish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 longed	advcl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 care	det
15	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 banish	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 banish	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 longed	nsubj
18	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 riches	case
20	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 longed	obl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 gain	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 gain	mark
23	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 longed	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 power	det
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gain	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sword	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sword	det
28	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 power	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plume	cc
30	plume	plume	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sword	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 uniform	cc
32	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plume	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wear	mark
34	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 plume	acl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	banish	present	youthful pleasures	every care			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	long	past	I		hour	for riches	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rich=Theme
3	gain	to-infinitive	I not said here	a power and the sword and plume and uniform			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
4	wear	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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