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title: "'Could I but have my love, Who then so happy as Glove! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Could I but have my love, Who then so happy as Glove! Who acts: my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 66

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"'Could I but have my love, Who then so happy as Glove!

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** have, love · **To what, where:** love

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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:pg27200:127:66
# text = "'Could I but have my love, Who then so happy as Glove!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | my love |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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