Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 43

The night passed, the next day also; but nobody came to fetch the Shoes.

Who acts: night, nobody · What happens: pass, come, fetch · To what, where: Shoes

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 (night, nobody), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
8	also	also	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Shoes	det
16	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fetch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	past	the night		day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	nobody			tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the Shoes		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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