Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 64

It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.

Who acts: restlessness, good thing, powder magazine, poor man, magazine · What happens: be, work, do, overstrain, travell, wish · To what, where: good thing, much

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (restlessness, good thing, powder magazine, poor man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 worked	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worked	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Galoshes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Galoshes	det
11	Galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 power	nmod
12	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 instantaneously	advmod
14	instantaneously	instantaneously	ADV	_	12 worked	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 lightning	case
16	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worked	obl
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 magazine	det
19	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 magazine	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 powder	punct
21	magazine	magazine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 worked	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	28 man	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 travelled	nsubj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 wishes	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wishes	nmod:poss
31	overstrained	overstrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 wishes	amod
32	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 man	nmod
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 travelled	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 travelled	aux
35	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 worked	ccomp
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 world	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 travelled	obl
39	too	too	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 travelled	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 himself	case
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 much	nmod
43	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	47 us	cc
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 as	fixed
45	as	as	ADP	_	43 as	fixed
46	for	for	ADP	_	43 as	fixed
47	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 travelled	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	restlessness	a good thing		tree rules
2	work	past	a good thing		as lightning; instantaneously property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	would	a powder magazine			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	overstrain	participle				tree rules
5	travell	would · perfect	the poor man with magazine's overstrained wishes	much for magazine	about the world; us obl	tree rules
6	wish		magazine			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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