--- title: There, on the floor lay the galoshes, which the watchman had forgott… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There, on the floor lay the galoshes, which the watchman had forgotten; he never dreamed for a moment that they were those of Fortune; and they promised to do him good service in the wet; so he put them on. Who acts: watchman, man, watchmen. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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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 (watchman, man, watchmen), 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:pg1597:7:20 # text = There, on the floor lay the galoshes, which the watchman had forgotten; he never dreamed for a moment that they were those of Fortune; and they promised to do him good service in the wet; so he put them on. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 6 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 galoshes galosh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Fortune Fortune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 on on ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | | the galoshes | | the floor; there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location galosh=Theme | | 2 | **forget** | past · perfect | the watchman | the galoshes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **dream** | past | man | | | | moment | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | watchmen *= watchman* | those | | | | of Fortune | tree rules | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | watchmen *= watchman* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | watchmen *= watchman* *not said here* | man | | the wet | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put on** | past | man | watchmen *= watchman* | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/7/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/7/21/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/7/)