Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 104

A far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, “What a beautiful arabesque!”

Who acts: Herschel, correct imagination · What happens: create, place, copy, exclaim, arabesque · To what, where: quantity, rank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herschel, correct imagination), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 imagination	det
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 correct	advmod
4	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 imagination	amod
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 imagination	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pseudo	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pseudo	det
10	pseudo	pseudo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 that	nmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pseudo	punct
12	Herschel	Herschel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pseudo	appos
13	*	*	PUNCT	_	15 created	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 created	aux
15	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Herschel	acl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 created	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 placed	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 placed	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 placed	aux:pass
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 imagination	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 rank	case
25	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 file	cc
27	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rank	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 copied	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 copied	cc
30	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 placed	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	36 hand	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 painter	det
33	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 painter	amod
34	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hand	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 painter	case
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 copied	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 would	punct
38	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 would	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 copied	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 exclaimed	punct
41	without	without	ADP	_	42 doubt	case
42	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 exclaimed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 doubt	punct
44	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 exclaimed	aux
45	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 copied	parataxis
46	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	_	45 exclaimed	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 arabesque	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	52 arabesque	punct
49	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 arabesque	nsubj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 arabesque	det
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 arabesque	amod
52	arabesque	arabesque	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 exclaimed	parataxis
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	52 arabesque	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 arabesque	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	create	past · perfect	Herschel not said here	quantity			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
2	place	past · perfect · passive	a correct imagination than that not said here	quantity	rank and file		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rank=Destination
3	copy	participle	a correct imagination than that not said here			by some skilful painter's hand	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hand=Destination
4	exclaim speech: express	present · perfect				without doubt; involuntarily property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	arabesque in a quote						tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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