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title: “Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would not here written find! Who acts: Oft, you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 62

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“Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would not here written find!

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**Who acts:** Oft, you · **What happens:** be, write, pacify · **To what, where:** calm peace, find, mind

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oft, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:6:62
# text = “Oh, were I rich in calm and peace of mind, My grief you then would not here written find!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Oft |  |  | calm peace of mind and My grief |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** *in a quote* | would | you | find |  | here | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent find=Theme |
| 3 | **pacify** *in a quote* |  |  | mind |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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