--- title: Oh, to travel, to travel!" cried he; "there is no greater happiness… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Oh, to travel, to travel!" cried he; "there is no greater happiness in the world: it is the height of my ambition. Who acts: student, greater happiness, happiness, my. 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 (student, greater happiness, happiness, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:45:6 # text = Oh, to travel, to travel!" cried he; "there is no greater happiness in the world: it is the height of my ambition. 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ambition ambition NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | to-infinitive | student *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | student *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | student | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be** | present | no greater happiness in the world | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | happiness | the height | | | | of my ambition | tree rules | | 6 | **ambition** | | my | | | | | | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/7/) - ↑ back to [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/)