Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 78

If each were in his own place I would lead a game; this would be quite another thing.'

Who acts: each, I, this · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: own place, game, thing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, I, this), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 place	mark
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 place	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	advcl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lead	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lead	aux
10	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 thing	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 thing	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 thing	advmod
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lead	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	each		urn's own place	tree rules
2	lead	would	I	a game		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
3	is a	would	this	another thing		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: «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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