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title: How oft, in youth's bright hour, When youthful pleasures banish ever… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How oft, in youth's bright hour, When youthful pleasures banish every care, I longed for riches but to gain a power, The sword and plume and uniform to wear! Who acts: youthful pleasures, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 19

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How oft, in youth's bright hour, When youthful pleasures banish every care, I longed for riches but to gain a power, The sword and plume and uniform to wear!

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**Who acts:** youthful pleasures, I · **What happens:** banish, long, gain, wear · **To what, where:** care, power

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youthful pleasures, 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:pg27200:42:19
# text = How oft, in youth's bright hour, When youthful pleasures banish every care, I longed for riches but to gain a power, The sword and plume and uniform to wear!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	banish	banish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | present | youthful pleasures | every care |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **long** | past | I |  |  |  | hour | for riches | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rich=Theme |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a power and the sword and plume and uniform |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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