Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 11
“At all events it must be those which are wet,” thought he; but this time, in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for it was just those of Fortune which played as it were into his hands, or rather on his feet.
Who acts: left, Clerk, Fortune, those · What happens: be, think, guess, play, spite · To what, where: those, Clerk, events, hands, cleverness · 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 (left, Clerk, Fortune, those), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 events | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 events | det |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thought | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 those | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 those | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 those | cop |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 events | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wet | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wet | cop |
| 11 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 those | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 those | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 events | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 guessed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 guessed | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 guessed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spite | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 spite | case |
| 22 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cleverness | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spite | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 guessed | nsubj |
| 28 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | conj |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 wrong | advmod |
| 30 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 guessed | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hands | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 those | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 those | cop |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 those | advmod |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 hands | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Fortune | case |
| 38 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 those | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 played | nsubj |
| 40 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 Fortune | acl:relcl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 played | obl |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 hands | cop |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 hands | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hands | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 guessed | ccomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 feet | punct |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 52 feet | cc |
| 49 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 52 feet | advmod |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 feet | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 feet | nmod:poss |
| 52 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 hands | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | left | those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | wet property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Clerk | all events | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | Clerk | time | wrong property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is | past | left | for those; of Fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | play | past | Fortune | as left | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | those | Clerk's hands or Clerk's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | spite | Clerk's cleverness | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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