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title: The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes? Who acts: goloshes, clerk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 8

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The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes?

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**Who acts:** goloshes, clerk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wet pair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goloshes, clerk), 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:pg27200:44:8
# text = The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	Fortune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the goloshes of Fortune | the wet pair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | a clerk in a police office |  |  |  |  | sometimes, wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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