--- title: He had on thick wooden shoes, and he went and stamped so hard on the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had on thick wooden shoes, and he went and stamped so hard on the ice that it broke, and then he picked up the duckling and tucked him under his sheepskin coat, where his frozen bones began to thaw a little. Who acts: fortune, ice, frozen bones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, ice, frozen bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:9:92 # text = He had on thick wooden shoes, and he went and stamped so hard on the ice that it broke, and then he picked up the duckling and tucked him under his sheepskin coat, where his frozen bones began to thaw a little. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 duckling duckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tucked tuck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 sheepskin sheepskin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ _ 40 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 thaw thaw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | fortune | | | thick wooden shoes | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | fortune | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stamp** | past | fortune *not said here* | | | the ice | | hard *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ice=Destination | | 4 | **break** | past | ice | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **pick up** | past | fortune | the duckling | | | then | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Topic | | 6 | **tuck** | past | fortune *not said here* | fortune | | fortune's sheepskin coat | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme under coat=Trajectory | | 7 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **begin** | past | fortune's frozen bones | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **thaw** | to-infinitive | fortune's frozen bones *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/93/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/9/)