--- title: Wherever I go I feel a want which oppresses my heart, for something… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Wherever I go I feel a want which oppresses my heart, for something better presents itself at the moment; yes, something better, which shall be the best of all; but where is that to be found? Who acts: I, want, something. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, want, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:3357`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:45:53 # text = Wherever I go I feel a want which oppresses my heart, for something better presents itself at the moment; yes, something better, which shall be the best of all; but where is that to be found? 1 Wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 want want NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 oppresses oppress VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 16 presents present VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 17 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 24 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 parataxis _ _ 25 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 acl:relcl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 38 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | I | | | | | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | present | I | a want | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | | 3 | **oppress** | present | a want | my heart | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **present** | present | something | heart | | | moment | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 5 | **is** | shall | | | | | | of all; good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | present · passive | | that | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/54/) - ↑ back to [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/)