Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 29
"Oh were I rich in truth and peace below, I need not then my poverty bewail.
Who acts: RICH, poverty · What happens: be, not need, bewail · To what, where: truth
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 (RICH, poverty), 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 | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 rich | discourse |
| 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 | _ | 7 truth | case |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rich | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 peace | cc |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 truth | conj |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 9 peace | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 need | advmod |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 bewail | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bewail | nsubj |
| 18 | bewail | bewail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 need | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | RICH | truth and peace | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not need in a quote | present | RICH | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bewail not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | my poverty | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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