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title: The goloshes, like all persons who wish to do a thing thoroughly, co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The goloshes, like all persons who wish to do a thing thoroughly, could only attend to one thing at a time. Who acts: persons, goloshes. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 85

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The goloshes, like all persons who wish to do a thing thoroughly, could only attend to one thing at a time.

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**Who acts:** persons, goloshes · **What happens:** wish, do, attend · **To what, where:** thing

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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 (persons, goloshes), 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:pg27200:44:85
# text = The goloshes, like all persons who wish to do a thing thoroughly, could only attend to one thing at a time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | all persons |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all persons *not said here* | a thing |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **attend** | could | the goloshes and all persons |  |  |  | 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:** «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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