Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 82

"'Yes, if we had chosen,' they each thought, 'we might have spent a very pleasant evening.'

Who acts: we, things · What happens: choose, thought, spend · To what, where: thought

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 (we, things), 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	_	8 chosen	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 chosen	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Yes	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 chosen	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 chosen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
8	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thought	det
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chosen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spent	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 spent	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 spent	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 spent	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 spent	aux
19	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 evening	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 pleasant	advmod
22	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 evening	amod
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spent	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	choose in a quote	past · perfect	we			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	thought in a quote		things = thing			tree rules
3	spend in a quote	might · perfect	we	each thought not said here	evening	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Asset

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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