Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 13

He went on at first like a mere automaton, without thought or wish; therefore the goloshes had no opportunity to display their magic power.

Who acts: man, goloshes · What happens: go on, have, display · To what, where: opportunity, magic power

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, goloshes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 went	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 automaton	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 automaton	det
8	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 automaton	amod
9	automaton	automaton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 thought	case
12	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 automaton	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wish	cc
14	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 goloshes	det
18	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 opportunity	det
21	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 display	mark
23	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 opportunity	acl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 power	nmod:poss
25	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 power	compound
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 display	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	man		like a mere automaton	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	have	past	the goloshes	no opportunity	therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
3	display	to-infinitive	the goloshes not said here	goloshes's magic power		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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