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title: He wanted to be a poet, and he was one; he now wished to be a merry… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted to be a poet, and he was one; he now wished to be a merry chirping bird: but when he was metamorphosed into one, the former peculiarities ceased immediately. Who acts: doubt, former peculiarities. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 91

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He wanted to be a poet, and he was one; he now wished to be a merry chirping bird: but when he was metamorphosed into one, the former peculiarities ceased immediately.

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**Who acts:** doubt, former peculiarities · **What happens:** want, be, wish, metamorphose, cease · **To what, where:** poet, one, merry chirping bird, doubt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, former peculiarities), 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:pg1597:8:91
# text = He wanted to be a poet, and he was one; he now wished to be a merry chirping bird: but when he was metamorphosed into one, the former peculiarities ceased immediately.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	chirping	chirping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	metamorphosed	metamorphose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | doubt |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | doubt *not said here* | a poet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | doubt | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past | doubt |  |  |  | now |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a merry chirping bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **metamorphose** | past · passive |  | doubt |  |  |  | into one *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into one=Result |
| 7 | **cease** | past | the former peculiarities |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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