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title: Oh, I wish I were safe back on the table again, under the looking gl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, I wish I were safe back on the table again, under the looking glass; I shall never be happy till I am safe back again. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 57

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Oh, I wish I were safe back on the table again, under the looking glass; I shall never be happy till I am safe back again.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wish, be, look, not be · **To what, where:** looking glass, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. 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:pg27200:166:57
# text = Oh, I wish I were safe back on the table again, under the looking glass; I shall never be happy till I am safe back again.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I |  |  | the looking glass | again |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the table |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  | again | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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