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title: It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instant… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us. Who acts: restlessness, good thing, powder magazin
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 64

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It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.

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**Who acts:** restlessness, good thing, powder magazine, poor man, magazine · **What happens:** be, work, do, overstrain, travell, wish · **To what, where:** good thing, much

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (restlessness, good thing, powder magazine, poor 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:pg1597:9:64
# text = It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	instantaneously	instantaneously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	magazine	magazine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	overstrained	overstrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	nmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	47	cc	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	fixed	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
47	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | restlessness | a good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | a good thing |  |  |  |  | as lightning; instantaneously *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | would | a powder magazine |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overstrain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **travell** | would · perfect | the poor man with magazine's overstrained wishes | much for magazine |  |  |  | about the world; us *obl* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wish** |  | magazine |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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