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title: The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commiss… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.; but what she had yet to perform was something quite unusual. Who acts: few unimportant commissions, One. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Sh
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 22

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The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.; but what she had yet to perform was something quite unusual.

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**Who acts:** few unimportant commissions, One · **What happens:** execute, save, have, perform, be · **To what, where:** messenger, new bonnet, shower, something

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few unimportant commissions, One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:5:22
# text = The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.; but what she had yet to perform was something quite unusual.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	commissions	commission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **execute** | past · perfect · passive |  | the messenger of Fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | a few unimportant commissions *not said here* | a new bonnet |  | a shower of rain and etc. |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bonnet=Theme from shower=Source |
| 3 | **have** | past | One |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **perform** | to-infinitive | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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