Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 35

By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.

Who acts: magic power, account · What happens: carry back, sink, have, be · To what, where: man, mud

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 (magic power, account), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 power	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 power	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 power	amod
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoes	det
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 power	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	aux:pass
10	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 carried	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 times	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 times	det
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 carried	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Hans	case
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Hans	compound
17	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 times	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sank	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 account	case
20	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	21 account	det
21	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sank	nsubj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 account	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 naturally	advmod
25	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	26 sank	advmod
26	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carried	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 mud	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mud	det
29	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sank	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 puddles	cc
31	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mud	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 street	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 street	det
34	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 puddles	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 days	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 days	expl
37	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 days	amod
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 days	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 days	case
40	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 days	det
41	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sank	obl
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 pavement	det
43	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 days	appos
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 Copenhagen	case
45	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 pavement	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry back	past · passive	the magic power of the shoes	man		time		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	sink	past	which account		the mud and puddles of the street		naturally property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle			there	in that having days		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: «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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