Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 165

Oh, if he could only draw and paint!

Who acts: house · What happens: draw, paint

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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	_	7 draw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 draw	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 draw	advmod
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 paint	cc
9	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 draw	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	could	house						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	paint	infinitive	house not said here						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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