Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 11

"I should like to see Rome," she said; "it must be a lovely city, or so many foreigners would not be constantly arriving there.

Who acts: I, kind, many foreigners · What happens: like, see, say, be, not be · To what, where: lovely city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, kind, many foreigners), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Rome	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 city	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 city	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 city	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 city	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 city	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 city	det
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 city	amod
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 arriving	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 arriving	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foreigners	amod
24	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 arriving	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 arriving	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 arriving	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 arriving	cop
28	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	29 arriving	advmod
29	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 like	conj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 arriving	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	must	kind	a lovely city			tree rules
5	not is in a quote	would	many foreigners		there	arrive, constantly property	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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