Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 1

There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous!

Who acts: little girl, girl, large wooden shoes, that · What happens: be, force, run about, wear, make, look · To what, where: girl, large wooden shoes, little insteps

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, girl, large wooden shoes, that), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pretty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pretty	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 pretty	advmod
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 delicate	cc
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pretty	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forced	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 forced	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 summer	case
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forced	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forced	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 forced	aux:pass
19	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 run	mark
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forced	xcomp
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 run	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feet	amod
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 run	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 poor	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 poor	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 poor	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 poor	advmod
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forced	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wear	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wear	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 winter	case
34	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wear	obl
35	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 poor	conj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 large	advmod
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 shoes	amod
38	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 shoes	amod
39	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 wear	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 shoes	acl:relcl
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 insteps	nmod:poss
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 insteps	amod
45	insteps	instep	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 made	obj
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 red	advmod
47	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 insteps	appos
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 looked	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 looked	cc
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 looked	nsubj
51	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 made	conj
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 dangerous	advmod
53	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 looked	xcomp
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little girl		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a little girl				pretty property	tree rules
3	be		a little girl not said here					tree rules
4	force	past · passive		girl		summer		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	run about	to-infinitive	girl not said here				with bare feet; about property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with foot=Material
6	is	past	girl				poor property	tree rules
7	wear	present	girl not said here	large wooden shoes		winter		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
8	make	past	large wooden shoes	girl's little insteps				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instep=Product
9	look	past	that				dangerous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: «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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