Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 8
The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes?
Who acts: goloshes, clerk · What happens: be · To what, where: wet pair
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 (goloshes, clerk), 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 | 8 pair | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goloshes | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pair | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 7 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pair | amod |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrong | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wrong | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 24 wrong | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clerk | punct |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 clerk | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 clerk | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 clerk | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 clerk | det |
| 18 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 office | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 office | det |
| 21 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 office | compound |
| 22 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clerk | nmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wrong | cop |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pair | conj |
| 25 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 wrong | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the goloshes of Fortune | the wet pair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | a clerk in a police office | sometimes, wrong property | tree rules |
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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