Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 8
I should like to see beautiful Switzerland, to travel through Italy, and,"--It was well for him that the goloshes acted immediately, otherwise he might have been carried too far for himself as well as for us.
Who acts: I, feeling, goloshes · What happens: like, see, travel, be, act, carry · To what, where: beautiful Switzerland, Italy, Switzerland · 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 (I, feeling, goloshes), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Switzerland | amod |
| 7 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 travel | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 Italy | case |
| 12 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 acted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 acted | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 18 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 him | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 him | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 acted | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 acted | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goloshes | det |
| 25 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 acted | nsubj |
| 26 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | parataxis |
| 27 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 26 acted | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carried | punct |
| 29 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 34 carried | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 carried | aux |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 carried | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 carried | aux:pass |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 acted | conj |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 far | advmod |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 carried | advmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 carried | obl |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 34 carried | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 as | fixed |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 as | fixed |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 us | case |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 carried | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | beautiful Switzerland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer switzerland=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | I not said here | Italy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through italy=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | feeling | for Italy; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | act in a quote | past | the goloshes | immediately property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | carry in a quote | might · perfect · passive | Switzerland | for Switzerland; for us; far, otherwise property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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