Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 55

He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.

Who acts: speaker, lawful owner, owner, Shoes · What happens: have, appear, claim, beside, be, think · To what, where: Shoes, doors, thing

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 (speaker, lawful owner, owner, Shoes), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 Shoes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Shoes	det
5	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 appeared	mark
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 appeared	mark
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 appeared	advmod
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 owner	det
11	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 owner	amod
12	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 appeared	aux
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 claim	mark
16	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 appeared	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 claim	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 besides	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 besides	cc
20	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dirty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dirty	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 dirty	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 dirty	advmod
25	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 besides	ccomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	30 doors	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 out	punct
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 doors	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 of	punct
30	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dirty	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thing	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thing	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thing	cop
34	just	just	ADV	_	36 thing	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 thing	det
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dirty	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thing	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 thought	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thought	nsubj
41	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 besides	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	speaker		the Shoes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	appear	past · perfect	no lawful owner			yet		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	no lawful owner not said here	Shoes = shoe				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	beside	present						tree rules
5	is	past	owner		doors		dirty property	tree rules
6	is a	past	Shoes = shoe	the thing			for speaker	tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	speaker					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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