Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 139

If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to the world.

Who acts: I · What happens: receive, be, lose · To what, where: golden shoes, ornament, I

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 received	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 received	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 received	aux
4	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 received	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ornament	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ornament	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ornament	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ornament	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ornament	det
12	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoes	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 stable	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stable	det
15	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ornament	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lost	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux:pass
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 received	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 stable	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stable	det
23	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 world	cc
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stable	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · perfect	I	golden shoes			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
2	is a	should · perfect	I	a ornament		to the stable	tree rules
3	lose	present · passive		I	now	to the stable and the world	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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