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title: "Oh were I rich! again is all my prayer: That child is now a woman,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh were I rich! again is all my prayer: That child is now a woman, fair and free, As good and beautiful as angels are. Who acts: RICH, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 25

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"Oh were I rich! again is all my prayer: That child is now a woman, fair and free, As good and beautiful as angels are.

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**Who acts:** RICH, child · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** prayer, woman

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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 (RICH, child), 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:pg27200:42:25
# text = "Oh were I rich! again is all my prayer: That child is now a woman, fair and free, As good and beautiful as angels are.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	As	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | RICH |  |  |  | again | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | rich | my prayer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that child | a woman |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | that child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | that child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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