Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 19

Ah," he sighed, "if I were only on the other side of the Alps now, it would be summer, and I should be able to get money on my letter of credit.

Who acts: wind, I, side, my · What happens: sigh, be, get, letter · To what, where: other side, summer, money, letter, credit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, I, side, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 sighed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sighed	nsubj
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 side	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 side	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 side	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 side	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 side	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sighed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Alps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Alps	det
18	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 side	nmod
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sighed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 summer	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 summer	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 summer	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 summer	cop
24	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sighed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 able	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 able	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 able	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sighed	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 letter	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 letter	nmod:poss
36	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 credit	case
38	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 letter	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh in a quote	past	wind			now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I		the other side		of the Alps	tree rules
3	is a	would	side	summer				tree rules
4	is	should	I				able property	tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	money	my letter of credit			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on letter=Source
6	letter		my	credit				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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