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title: “At all events it must be those which are wet,” thought he; but this… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “At all events it must be those which are wet,” thought he; but this time, in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for it was just those of Fortune which played as it were into his hands, or rather on his feet. Who acts: left, Clerk, Fortune, those. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales»
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 11

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“At all events it must be those which are wet,” thought he; but this time, in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for it was just those of Fortune which played as it were into his hands, or rather on his feet.

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**Who acts:** left, Clerk, Fortune, those · **What happens:** be, think, guess, play, spite · **To what, where:** those, Clerk, events, hands, cleverness · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (left, Clerk, Fortune, those), 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:pg1597:8:11
# text = “At all events it must be those which are wet,” thought he; but this time, in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for it was just those of Fortune which played as it were into his hands, or rather on his feet.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	46	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | left | those |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Clerk |  | all events |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 4 | **guess** | past | Clerk |  |  |  | time | wrong *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | left |  |  |  |  | for those; of Fortune | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** | past | Fortune |  |  |  |  | as left | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | those |  |  | Clerk's hands or Clerk's feet |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | Clerk's cleverness |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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