Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 16

These goloshes have the property of making every one who puts them on imagine himself in any place he wishes, or that he exists at any period.

Who acts: goloshes, property, one, messenger · What happens: have, make, put on, imagine, wish, exist · To what, where: property, one, goloshes, messenger, place, period

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goloshes, property, one, messenger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2946): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 goloshes	det
2	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 property	det
5	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 property	acl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 making	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 puts	nsubj
11	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 puts	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	11 puts	compound:prt
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 making	xcomp
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 imagine	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 imagine	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wishes	nsubj
20	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 place	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 exists	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 exists	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 exists	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 exists	nsubj
25	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 himself	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 period	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 period	det
28	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 exists	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	this goloshes	the property		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient
2	make	gerund	the property not said here	every one		tree rules
3	put on	present	every one	goloshes = golosh		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	imagine	infinitive	every one not said here	messenger	any place	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
5	wish	present	messenger	any place not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
6	exist	present	messenger		any period	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at period=Location

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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