Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 40

While expressing his wish, the charm of the shoes, which he had put on, began to work; the watchman entered into the being and nature of the lieutenant.

Who acts: watchman, lieutenant · What happens: express, put on, begin, work, enter, be · To what, where: wish, shoes, nature

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 (watchman, lieutenant), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 expressing	mark
2	expressing	express	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wish	nmod:poss
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 charm	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 charm	det
7	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expressing	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoes	det
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 charm	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 put	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shoes	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 expressing	punct
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 entered	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 watchman	det
23	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 entered	nsubj
24	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 nature	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nature	det
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 nature	cop
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nature	cc
29	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 entered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 lieutenant	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lieutenant	det
32	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nature	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	express	gerund		lieutenant's wish		the charm of the shoes obl	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
2	put on	past · perfect · passive		the shoes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	work	to-infinitive					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	enter	past	the watchman				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	gerund			the nature	of the lieutenant	tree rules
7	wish		lieutenant				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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