Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 84

He seated himself once more and nodded: the dream continued to haunt him, for he still had the shoes on his feet.

Who acts: watchman, dream · What happens: seat, nod, continue, haunt, have · To what, where: watchman, shoes, feet

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, dream), 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 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 seated	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nodded	cc
7	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dream	det
10	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 haunt	mark
13	haunt	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 haunt	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 continued	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shoes	det
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seat	past	watchman	watchman			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	nod	past	watchman not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	continue	past	the dream				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	haunt	to-infinitive	the dream not said here	watchman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	have	past	watchman	the shoes	watchman's feet	still	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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