Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 52

"Travelling would be all very well," said the student of divinity to himself, "if we had no bodies, or if the body could rest while the soul if flying.

Who acts: Travelling, we, body · What happens: be, say, have, rest, fly · To what, where: student, Travelling, bodies, soul · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Travelling, we, body), 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	_	2 Travelling	punct
2	Travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 well	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 well	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Travelling	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Travelling	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Travelling	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 student	det
12	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 divinity	case
14	divinity	divinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 student	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 bodies	det
23	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rest	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 rest	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 rest	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 body	det
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rest	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 rest	aux
30	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	conj
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 soul	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 soul	det
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rest	xcomp
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 flying	mark
35	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 rest	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	Travelling not said here			all, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Travelling	the student of divinity	Travelling		tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	no bodies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
4	rest a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	the body	the soul			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fly a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	the body not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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