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title: These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.” Who acts: shoes, property, m
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 24

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These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.”

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**Who acts:** shoes, property, messenger · **What happens:** possess, transport, have on, wish, fulfil, be · **To what, where:** property, messenger, shoes, period

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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 (shoes, property, messenger), 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:pg1597:5:24
# text = These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.”
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	transporting	transport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	regards	regards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	33	compound	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
44	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
52	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	cop	_	_
54	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	parataxis	_	_
57	below	below	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | this shoes | the property |  |  | time |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme |
| 2 | **transport** | gerund | the property *not said here* | messenger |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have on** | present | the property | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  | to the place or the period | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **wish** |  | messenger |  |  | the period |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fulfil** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | at last man; happy *property* | 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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