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title: It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of Fortune. Who acts: world, malicious Fate. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 33

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It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of Fortune.

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**Who acts:** world, malicious Fate · **What happens:** be, intend, go, manage, matter, find · **To what, where:** King Hans, way, those

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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 (world, malicious Fate), 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:pg1597:5:33
# text = It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of Fortune.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	Knap	Knap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | world |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | world *not said here* |  |  |  | time | deeply *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **intend** | participle |  | King Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **manage** | past | malicious Fate |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | so Councillor's feet | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **find** | gerund |  | feet's way |  |  |  | to Councillor's own galoshes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 8 | **slip** | past |  |  |  | those |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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