Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 26

Oh, were I rich in lovers' poetry, To tell my fairy tale, love's richest lore!

Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: poetry, fairy tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, my), 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	_	5 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 poetry	case
7	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poetry	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 lovers	case
9	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rich	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	To	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rich	parataxis
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tale	nmod:poss
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tale	compound
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lore	punct
17	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lore	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 love	case
19	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 lore	amod
20	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		lovers's poetry	rich property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		my fairy tale		love's richest lore obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	tell		my				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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