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title: Could we rightly describe this picturesque scene, our readers would… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Could we rightly describe this picturesque scene, our readers would exclaim, "Delightful Italy!" Who acts: we, readers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 24

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:45:24
# text = Could we rightly describe this picturesque scene, our readers would exclaim, "Delightful Italy!"
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	exclaim	exclaim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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