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title: If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to the world. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 139

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If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to the world.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** receive, be, lose · **To what, where:** golden shoes, ornament, I

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:8:139
# text = If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to the world.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · perfect | I | golden shoes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | should · perfect | I | a ornament |  |  |  | to the stable | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | present · passive |  | I |  |  | now | to the stable and the world | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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