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title: I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and--” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 63

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I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and--”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** behold, travel · **To what, where:** magnificent Switzerland, Italy

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:9:63
# text = I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and--”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | would | I | magnificent Switzerland |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer switzerland=Stimulus |
| 2 | **travel** | would | I |  | Italy |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to italy=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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