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title: Oh! most happy were I, could I but reach one aim--could but reach th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh! most happy were I, could I but reach one aim--could but reach the happiest of all!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 111

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Oh! most happy were I, could I but reach one aim--could but reach the happiest of all!”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** I, one aim, happiest

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. 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:pg1597:9:111
# text = Oh! most happy were I, could I but reach one aim--could but reach the happiest of all!”
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	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 | **reach** | could | I | one aim |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | could | I *not said here* | the happiest |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent happy=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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