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title: The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 8

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The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes--when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.

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**Who acts:** dead body, we, first thing, that · **What happens:** wander, say, bring, do, be, return · **To what, where:** body, general viewing room, first thing, adventures · **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 (dead body, we, first thing, that), 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:pg1597:7:8
# text = The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes--when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	viewing	viewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	amod	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
42	off	off	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	parataxis	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	aux	_	_
60	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	quickness	quickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
66	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
67	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
68	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	tenement	tenement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the dead body of the watchman |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | body |  | the general viewing room |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into room=Destination |
| 4 | **do** | past · passive |  | the first thing |  | here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | the first thing |  |  |  |  | the spirit *obl*; naturally, pull *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | that |  |  | adventures |  | go, merely *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **return** | must · perfect | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the quickness of lightning to body's earthly tenement | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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