Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 58

The space between the heavenly bodies is, to thought, no farther than the distance which we may have to walk from one friend's house to another in the same town; yet this electric shock obliges us to use our bodies here below, unless, like the watchman, we have on the goloshes of Fortune.

Who acts: space, distance, electric shock, we · What happens: be, have, walk, oblige, use · To what, where: house, us, bodies, goloshes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (space, distance, electric shock, we), 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 space	det
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	6 bodies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bodies	det
5	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bodies	amod
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 space	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 thought	case
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 farther	punct
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 farther	discourse
13	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 distance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 distance	det
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 farther	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 have	nsubj
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 distance	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 walk	mark
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 house	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 friend	nummod
25	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 friend	case
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walk	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 walk	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 town	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 town	amod
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walk	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 obliges	punct
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	39 obliges	cc
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 shock	det
37	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shock	amod
38	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 obliges	nsubj
39	obliges	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 obliges	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 use	mark
42	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 obliges	xcomp
43	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bodies	nmod:poss
44	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 use	obj
45	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 use	advmod
46	below	below	ADV	_	42 use	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 have	punct
48	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	55 have	mark
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 unless	punct
50	like	like	ADP	_	52 watchman	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 watchman	det
52	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 have	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 watchman	punct
54	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 have	nsubj
55	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 obliges	conj
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 goloshes	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 goloshes	det
58	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 have	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 Fortune	case
60	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 goloshes	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the space between the heavenly bodies			to thought; far property	tree rules
2	have	may	the distance				tree rules
3	walk	to-infinitive	the distance not said here		one friend's house	to another; in the same town	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from house=Initial_Location to another=Destination in town=Trajectory
4	oblige	present	this electric shock	us			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result
5	use	to-infinitive	this electric shock not said here	our bodies	here	below property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
6	have a condition, not said to happen	present	we		the goloshes of Fortune	like the watchman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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