Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 60

In that lady yonder, so strangely dressed, I should find for certain a large milliner's shop; in that one the shop is empty, but it wants cleaning plain enough.

Who acts: I, shop · What happens: dress, find, be, want, clean · To what, where: lady

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 (I, shop), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 lady	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obl
4	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	3 lady	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 dressed	advmod
7	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	8 dressed	advmod
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lady	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lady	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 certain	case
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 milliner	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 milliner	amod
17	milliner	milliner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shop	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 milliner	case
19	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 certain	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 empty	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 one	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 one	det
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 empty	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shop	det
25	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 empty	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 empty	cop
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wants	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 wants	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wants	nsubj
31	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 find	conj
32	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 wants	xcomp
33	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cleaning	xcomp
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 plain	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		that lady not said here	strangely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	should	I		in that lady; certain property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the shop		in that one; empty property	tree rules
4	want	present	shop			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	clean not said to happen	gerund	shop not said here		plain property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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