Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 24

Could we rightly describe this picturesque scene, our readers would exclaim, "Delightful Italy!"

Who acts: we, readers · What happens: describe, exclaim · To what, where: picturesque scene, Delightful Italy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, readers), 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	4 describe	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 describe	nsubj
3	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	4 describe	advmod
4	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 scene	det
6	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scene	amod
7	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describe	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaim	punct
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 readers	nmod:poss
10	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 exclaim	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaim	aux
12	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 describe	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Italy	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Italy	punct
15	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Italy	amod
16	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 exclaim	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Italy	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 exclaim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	could	we	this picturesque scene				rightly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent scene=Theme clause=Attribute
2	exclaim speech: express	would	our readers	Delightful Italy					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent italy=Topic

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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