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title: I wish to Heaven I could walk in and take a trip right through the h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I wish to Heaven I could walk in and take a trip right through the hearts of those present!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 65

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I wish to Heaven I could walk in and take a trip right through the hearts of those present!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wish, walk in, take · **To what, where:** Heaven, trip, hearts

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. 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.

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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:pg1597:7:65
# text = I wish to Heaven I could walk in and take a trip right through the hearts of those present!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **walk in** | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a trip |  | the hearts of that present |  | right *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Theme |

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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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