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title: Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being--with his… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being--with his desires and with his hopes perform the weary pilgrimage of life! Who acts: I, hopes, watchman. 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 e
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 76

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Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being--with his desires and with his hopes perform the weary pilgrimage of life!

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**Who acts:** I, hopes, watchman · **What happens:** be, exchange, perform, hope · **To what, where:** I, weary pilgrimage

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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 (I, hopes, watchman), 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:pg1597:6:76
# text = Oh, far happier were I, could I exchange with him my being--with his desires and with his hopes perform the weary pilgrimage of life!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exchange** | could | I |  |  |  |  | with watchman | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with my desires | tree rules |
| 4 | **perform** | present | watchman's hopes | the weary pilgrimage of life |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Theme |
| 5 | **hope** |  | watchman |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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