Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 25

I should like to try what it is to have a poetic taste, and to become a poet myself.

Who acts: I, opinion · What happens: like, try, be, become · To what, where: poet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opinion), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 have	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 taste	det
12	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 taste	amod
13	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 become	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 become	mark
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 poet	det
19	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	xcomp
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 poet	nmod:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	is not said to happen	present	opinion		have property	tree rules
4	become	to-infinitive	I not said here	a poet myself		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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