Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 80
Could we render this inimitable picture properly, then would everybody exclaim, “Beautiful, unparalleled Italy!”
Who acts: we, everybody · What happens: render, exclaim · To what, where: inimitable picture, Beautiful unparalleled 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 (we, everybody), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 render | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 render | nsubj |
| 3 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 picture | det |
| 5 | inimitable | inimitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 picture | amod |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 render | obj |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 3 render | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaim | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 exclaim | advmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaim | aux |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 exclaim | nsubj |
| 12 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 render | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Italy | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Italy | punct |
| 15 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Italy | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Beautiful | punct |
| 17 | unparalleled | unparalleled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Italy | amod |
| 18 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaim | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 render | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 render | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | could | we | this inimitable picture | properly property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | would | everybody | Beautiful unparalleled Italy | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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: «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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