Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 33
It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of Fortune.
Who acts: world, malicious Fate · What happens: be, intend, go, manage, matter, find · To what, where: King Hans, way, those
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, malicious Fate), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 matters | csubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 Councillor | punct |
| 5 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 late | appos |
| 6 | Knap | Knap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Councillor | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 occupied | punct |
| 8 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 9 occupied | advmod |
| 9 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 late | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 times | det |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 occupied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hans | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hans | compound |
| 15 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 times | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 intended | punct |
| 17 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Hans | acl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 intended | xcomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 managed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 managed | cc |
| 23 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fate | amod |
| 24 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 managed | nsubj |
| 25 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | conj |
| 26 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 feet | case |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 matters | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 finding | punct |
| 32 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 finding | mark |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 instead | fixed |
| 34 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 matters | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 finding | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 galoshes | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 galoshes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 galoshes | amod |
| 40 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 finding | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 slipped | punct |
| 42 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 finding | conj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 those | case |
| 44 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 slipped | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Fortune | case |
| 46 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 those | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | world | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | world not said here | time | deeply property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | intend | participle | King Hans not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | manage | past | malicious Fate | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | so Councillor's feet | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | find | gerund | feet's way | to Councillor's own galoshes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 8 | slip | past | those | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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: «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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