Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 32
The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
Who acts: temper · What happens: place, not occur, wish · To what, where: Shoes, dreadful situation, Fortune
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 (temper), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shoes | det |
| 2 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shoes | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 situation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 situation | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 dreadful | advmod |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 situation | amod |
| 12 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 occurred | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 occurred | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 20 occurred | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 occurred | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 occurred | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 occurred | advmod |
| 20 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 occurred | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wish | mark |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 occurred | advcl |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 wish | iobj |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | the Shoes of Fortune | the dreadful situation | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not occur | past | temper | Fortune | unfortunately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | to-infinitive | temper not said here | Fortune | free property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |
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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