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title: And behold! to the Shoes of Fortune this was the cue; the whole man… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And behold! to the Shoes of Fortune this was the cue; the whole man shrunk together and a most uncommon journey through the hearts of the front row of spectators, now began. Who acts: this, whole man. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its de
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 66

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And behold! to the Shoes of Fortune this was the cue; the whole man shrunk together and a most uncommon journey through the hearts of the front row of spectators, now began.

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**Who acts:** this, whole man · **What happens:** be, shrink, begin · **To what, where:** cue, whole man

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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 (this, whole 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:pg1597:7:66
# text = And behold! to the Shoes of Fortune this was the cue; the whole man shrunk together and a most uncommon journey through the hearts of the front row of spectators, now began.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cue	cue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	shrunk	shrink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this | the cue |  |  |  | to the Shoes of Fortune | tree rules |
| 2 | **shrink** | participle |  | the whole man through the hearts of the front row of spectators and a uncommon journey *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the whole man through the hearts of the front row of spectators and a uncommon journey *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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