Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 5

Well, perhaps, if in the beginning of a book these were written and printed, many, when they read it, would lay the book down and say, "It seems to me a very miserable title, I don't like things of this sort."

Who acts: appearance, It · What happens: write, print, read, lay down, say, seem · To what, where: these, beginning, book, miserable title, appearance, many · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, It), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	18 many	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perhaps	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 written	mark
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 beginning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beginning	det
8	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 written	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 book	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 book	det
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beginning	nmod
12	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 written	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 written	aux:pass
14	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 many	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 printed	cc
16	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 written	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 written	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 like	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 read	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 read	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	nsubj
22	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 many	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 lay	aux
26	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 read	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 book	det
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obj
29	down	down	ADP	_	26 lay	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lay	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seems	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 seems	punct
34	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seems	nsubj
35	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	ccomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 seems	obl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 title	det
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 miserable	advmod
40	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 title	amod
41	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seems	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 like	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 like	nsubj
44	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 like	aux
45	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 like	advmod
46	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
47	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 like	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 sort	case
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 sort	det
50	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 things	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 like	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	write a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		these		in the beginning of a book	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in beginning=Destination
2	print	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read	past	appearance	book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	lay down	would	appearance not said here	the book			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	appearance not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	seem in a quote	present	It	a miserable title	appearance		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	not like in a quote	present · do-support	appearance	many			tree rules
8	begin			a book			nom beginning «event 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: «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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