Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 40
Oh, how much happier I should be could I change my being and position with him, and pass through life with his humble expectations and hopes!
Who acts: I, watchman · What happens: be, pass, expect · To what, where: position, life
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, watchman), 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 happier | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happier | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 happier | advmod |
| 5 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 change | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 change | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 change | cop |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 change | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 change | nsubj |
| 11 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happier | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 position | nmod:poss |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 position | cop |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 position | cc |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 change | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pass | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pass | cc |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happier | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pass | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 expectations | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 expectations | nmod:poss |
| 25 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 expectations | amod |
| 26 | expectations | expectation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pass | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hopes | cc |
| 28 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 expectations | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 happier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | I | with watchman; change property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | my position | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | life | with watchman's humble expectations and hopes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through life=Location | ||||
| 4 | expect | watchman | nom expectation «cognition transitive»: 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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