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title: The Shoes, as is the case with anybody who does what he has to do pr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shoes, as is the case with anybody who does what he has to do properly, could only attend to one thing at a time. Who acts: doubt, Shoes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 90

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The Shoes, as is the case with anybody who does what he has to do properly, could only attend to one thing at a time.

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**Who acts:** doubt, Shoes · **What happens:** be, do, have, attend

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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 (doubt, Shoes), 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:pg1597:8:90
# text = The Shoes, as is the case with anybody who does what he has to do properly, could only attend to one thing at a time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the case; with anybody | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | doubt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **attend** | could | the Shoes |  |  |  | time | to one thing | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to thing=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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