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title: The watchman, whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhil… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The watchman, whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhile of the galoshes he had found and taken with him to the hospital; he now went to fetch them; and as neither the lieutenant, nor anybody else in the street, claimed them as his property, they were delivered over to the police-office
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 3

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The watchman, whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhile of the galoshes he had found and taken with him to the hospital; he now went to fetch them; and as neither the lieutenant, nor anybody else in the street, claimed them as his property, they were delivered over to the police-office.

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**Who acts:** watchman · **What happens:** not forget, think, find, take, go, fetch · **To what, where:** galoshes, police

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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 (watchman), 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:pg1597:8:3
# text = The watchman, whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhile of the galoshes he had found and taken with him to the hospital; he now went to fetch them; and as neither the lieutenant, nor anybody else in the street, claimed them as his property, they were delivered over to the police-office.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc:preconj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	41	cc	_	_
41	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	appos	_	_
42	else	else	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
47	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
56	over	over	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | present · perfect | the watchman |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | the watchman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | watchman | the galoshes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent galosh=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | participle | watchman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with watchman; to the hospital *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hospital=Result |
| 5 | **go** | past | watchman |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | watchman *not said here* | galoshes *= galosh* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | watchman *not said here* | galoshes *= galosh* |  |  |  | as the lieutenant; as watchman's property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 8 | **deliver over** | past · passive |  | galoshes *= galosh* |  | the police and office |  | over *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to police=Destination |

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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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