Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 90

The Shoes, as is the case with anybody who does what he has to do properly, could only attend to one thing at a time.

Who acts: doubt, Shoes · What happens: be, do, have, attend

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 (doubt, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shoes	det
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 attend	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 case	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 case	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 case	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 case	det
7	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shoes	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 anybody	case
9	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 case	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 does	nsubj
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 anybody	acl:relcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 has	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 does	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 has	xcomp
17	properly	properly	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Shoes	punct
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 attend	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 attend	advmod
21	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 thing	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thing	nummod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attend	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attend	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 attend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			as the case; with anybody	tree rules
2	do	present				tree rules
3	have	present	doubt			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	doubt not said here		properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	attend	could	the Shoes	time	to one thing	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme

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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