--- title: I should like to see beautiful Switzerland, to travel through Italy,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:45:8 # text = 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. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 goloshes golosh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 acted act VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 35 too too ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obl _ _ 39 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 34 advmod _ _ 40 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 fixed _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. 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