Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 7

“Why, I declare the Shoes look just like my own,” said one of the clerks, eying the newly-found treasure, whose hidden powers, even he, sharp as he was, was not able to discover.

Who acts: I, Shoes, circumstance · What happens: declare, look, say, eie, find, be · To what, where: one, found treasure · 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 (I, Shoes, circumstance), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 declare	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 declare	nsubj
5	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Shoes	det
7	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 own	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 said	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 clerks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clerks	det
19	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eying	punct
21	eying	eie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 treasure	det
23	newly	newly	ADV	_	25 found	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 newly	punct
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 treasure	amod
26	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eying	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 powers	punct
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 powers	nmod:poss
29	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 powers	amod
30	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 treasure	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 he	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 he	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sharp	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 he	punct
35	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eying	parataxis
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 was	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 was	nsubj
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sharp	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 able	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 able	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 able	advmod
42	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 discover	mark
44	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other in a quote	present	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	look in a quote	present	the Shoes		own property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past		one of the clerks		tree rules
4	eie	gerund		the found treasure and the found treasure and the found treasure's hidden powers's hidden powers		tree rules
5	find	participle			newly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	circumstance			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is	past			able property	tree rules
8	discover	to-infinitive				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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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