--- title: In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as everyone knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow. Who acts: everyone, we. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:6:99 # text = In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as everyone knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 up up ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 formed form VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 ccomp _ _ 49 as as ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 newly newly ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 amod _ _ 53 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · passive | | the watchman | | | second | the two thousand of our miles to the moon *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **form** | past · passive | | the moon | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **matter** | present | | | | | | light *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | we | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | newly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/100/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/)