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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 19

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The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it were but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.

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**Who acts:** rain, man · **What happens:** pour down, oblige, go out, be, tell, think · **To what, where:** rain, torrents, young man, door keeper, railings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, man), 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:pg1597:7:19
# text = The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it were but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
3	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
63	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	advcl	_	_
64	to	to	PART	TO	_	65	mark	_	_
65	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	xcomp	_	_
66	through	through	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
68	railings	railing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  | torrents |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the young man |  |  |  | despite this two obstacles | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **go out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | rain |  |  |  | hour | for a quarter | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the rain *not said here* | the door keeper |  |  |  | about rain; that *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient about it=Topic |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unnecessary *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | man |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **slip** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | the railings |  |  | 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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