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title: Oh, how much happier I should be could I change my being and positio… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, how much happier I should be could I change my being and position with him, and pass through life with his humble expectations and hopes! Who acts: I, watchman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 40

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Oh, how much happier I should be could I change my being and position with him, and pass through life with his humble expectations and hopes!

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**Who acts:** I, watchman · **What happens:** be, pass, expect · **To what, where:** position, life

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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 (I, watchman), 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:pg27200:42:40
# text = Oh, how much happier I should be could I change my being and position with him, and pass through life with his humble expectations and hopes!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	expectations	expectation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could | I |  |  |  |  | with watchman; change *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | my position |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | present |  |  |  | life |  | with watchman's humble expectations and hopes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through life=Location |
| 4 | **expect** |  | watchman |  |  |  |  |  | nom expectation «cognition 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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