Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 16
The goloshes of Fortune had placed him in this terrible position, and unfortunately it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
Who acts: feeling · What happens: place, not occur, wish · To what, where: goloshes, terrible position, body
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling), 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 goloshes | det |
| 2 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goloshes | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 position | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 position | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 position | amod |
| 11 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 occurred | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 occurred | cc |
| 14 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 17 occurred | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 occurred | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 occurred | advmod |
| 17 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 occurred | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wish | mark |
| 21 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 occurred | advcl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 wish | iobj |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wish | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | the goloshes of Fortune | this terrible position | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not occur | past | feeling | body | unfortunately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | to-infinitive | feeling not said here | body | free property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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: «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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