Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 14

He did so; but just as he was going, the others remarked what he was about; they laid hold of him by the legs; and now, happily for him, off fell his fatal shoes--and with them the charm was at an end.

Who acts: man, others, charm · What happens: do, go, remark, lay, fall, be · To what, where: hold, fatal shoes, end, man

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, others, charm), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 going	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remarked	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remarked	nsubj
14	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 remarked	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 was	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laid	nsubj
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
22	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hold	nmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 legs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 legs	det
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 fell	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 happily	punct
32	happily	happily	ADV	_	30 now	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 happily	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 off	punct
36	off	off	ADV	_	37 fell	advmod
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 shoes	nmod:poss
39	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shoes	amod
40	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fell	obj
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 end	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 end	cc
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 end	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 charm	det
46	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 end	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 end	cop
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 end	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 end	det
50	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · progressive	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remark speech: assert	past	the others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	lay	past	others = other	hold of man		by the legs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme by leg=Destination
5	fall	past	man not said here	man's fatal shoes	now	off property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient shoe=Result
6	is	past	the charm		at a end	with others = other	tree rules
7	hold			man			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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