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title: The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation;… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free. Who acts: temper. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 32

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The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.

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**Who acts:** temper · **What happens:** place, not occur, wish · **To what, where:** Shoes, dreadful situation, Fortune

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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 (temper), 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:pg1597:7:32
# text = The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	iobj	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Shoes of Fortune |  | the dreadful situation |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **occur** | past | temper |  | Fortune |  |  | unfortunately *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | to-infinitive | temper *not said here* |  | Fortune |  |  | free *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme |

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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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