Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 20
There, on the floor lay the galoshes, which the watchman had forgotten; he never dreamed for a moment that they were those of Fortune; and they promised to do him good service in the wet; so he put them on.
Who acts: watchman, man, watchmen · What happens: lie, forget, not dream, be, promise, do · To what, where: galoshes, floor, those, man, wet, watchmen
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman, man, watchmen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 lay | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 galoshes | det |
| 8 | galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgotten | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 forgotten | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 watchman | det |
| 12 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgotten | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 galoshes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dreamed | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dreamed | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 dreamed | advmod |
| 18 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dreamed | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 those | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 those | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 those | cop |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 dreamed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Fortune | case |
| 27 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 those | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 promised | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 promised | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 promised | nsubj |
| 31 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 promised | xcomp |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 service | amod |
| 36 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 do | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wet | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wet | det |
| 39 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 do | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 put | punct |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 put | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | nsubj |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | advcl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 put | obj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 put | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the galoshes | the floor; there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location galosh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect | the watchman | the galoshes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not dream | past | man | moment | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | watchmen = watchman | those | of Fortune | tree rules | |||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | watchmen = watchman | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | watchmen = watchman not said here | man | the wet | tree rules | |||
| 7 | put on | past | man | watchmen = watchman | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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