Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 63
I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and--”
Who acts: I · What happens: behold, travel · To what, where: magnificent Switzerland, Italy
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. 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.
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 behold | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 behold | aux |
| 3 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Switzerland | amod |
| 5 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 behold | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 travel | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 travel | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 travel | aux |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 behold | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Italy | case |
| 11 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 travel | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 behold | cc |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | would | I | magnificent Switzerland | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer switzerland=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | travel | would | I | Italy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to italy=Destination |
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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