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title: By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen. Who acts: magic power, account. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 35

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By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.

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**Who acts:** magic power, account · **What happens:** carry back, sink, have, be · **To what, where:** man, mud

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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 (magic power, account), 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:pg1597:5:35
# text = By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	puddles	puddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
37	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
38	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | past · passive | the magic power of the shoes | man |  |  | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | past | which account |  |  | the mud and puddles of the street |  | naturally *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | there | in that having days |  | 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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