Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 59

“I can now,” said he to himself, “fancy the whole row of ladies and gentlemen sitting there in the front row; if one could but see into their hearts--yes, that would be a revelation--a sort of bazar.

Who acts: beginning, gentlemen, that · What happens: say, fancy, sit, see, be, sort · To what, where: beginning, whole row, front row, hearts, revelation, bazar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning, gentlemen, that), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 can	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 can	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 can	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fancy	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 fancy	punct
13	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 row	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 row	amod
16	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fancy	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ladies	case
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 row	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gentlemen	cc
20	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ladies	conj
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 gentlemen	acl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sitting	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 row	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 row	det
25	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 row	amod
26	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 could	mark
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 could	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 could	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 hearts	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hearts	nmod:poss
35	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 revelation	punct
37	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	43 revelation	discourse
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 revelation	punct
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 revelation	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 revelation	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 revelation	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 revelation	det
43	revelation	revelation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 sort	punct
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sort	det
46	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 revelation	appos
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 bazar	case
48	bazar	bazar	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sort	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	beginning		beginning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fancy in a quote	infinitive		the whole row of ladies and gentlemen			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer row=Stimulus
3	sit in a quote	gerund	gentlemen not said here			the front row; there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
4	see in a quote	could	beginning not said here			rows's hearts	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	would	that	a revelation			tree rules
6	sort in a quote			bazar			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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