Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 10

The copying-clerk turned round and spoke awhile with the man about the reports and legal documents in question; but when he had finished, and his eye fell again on the Shoes, he was unable to say whether those to the left or those to the right belonged to him.

Who acts: copying clerk, Clerk, eye, left · What happens: turn round, speak, finish, fall, be, say · To what, where: copying clerk, Shoes, those, left, Clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (copying clerk, Clerk, eye, left), 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	4 clerk	det
2	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clerk	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 copying	punct
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clerk	acl
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 turned	cc
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	8 spoke	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spoke	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 reports	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reports	det
15	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 man	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 documents	cc
17	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 documents	amod
18	documents	document	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reports	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 question	case
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 documents	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 finished	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 finished	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 finished	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 finished	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 finished	aux
26	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 spoke	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eye	nmod:poss
30	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spoke	parataxis
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 fell	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 Shoes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Shoes	det
35	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fell	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 unable	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 unable	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 unable	cop
39	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fell	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 say	mark
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 unable	xcomp
42	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	43 those	mark
43	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 say	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 left	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 left	det
46	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 say	obl
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 those	cc
48	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 belonged	nsubj
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 right	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 right	det
51	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 those	nmod
52	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 left	acl:relcl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 belonged	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	participle		the copying clerk not said here				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	the copying clerk					with the man about the reports and legal documents in question; awhile property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
3	finish	past · perfect	Clerk						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	fall	past	Clerk's eye			the Shoes	again		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoe=Location
5	is	past	eye					unable property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	eye not said here	those	the left				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to left=Recipient
7	belong	past	the left	the left not said here	Clerk				tree rules

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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