Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 10
And Karen believed all this happened on account of the red shoes, but the old lady thought they were horrible, and they were burnt.
Who acts: Karen, this, old lady, shoes · What happens: believe, happen, think, be, burnt, account · To what, where: account, shoes, red shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Karen, this, old lady, shoes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 believed | cc |
| 2 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shoes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoes | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 account | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | conj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 horrible | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 horrible | cop |
| 21 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 burnt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burnt | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 burnt | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burnt | aux:pass |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 horrible | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Karen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | this | account of the red shoes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on account=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the old lady | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | shoes = shoe | horrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burnt | past · passive | shoes = shoe | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | account | the red shoes | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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