Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 11

But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed; she must learn to read and sew; and people said she was a nice little thing, but the looking-glass said: “Thou art more than nice, thou art beautiful!”

Who acts: Karen, people, looking glass · What happens: dress, learn, read, sew, say, be · To what, where: Karen, nice little thing · 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, people, looking glass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
2	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dressed	nsubj
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Karen	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dressed	aux:pass
5	cleanly	cleanly	ADV	_	8 dressed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
7	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	8 dressed	advmod
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 learn	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learn	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 learn	aux
12	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dressed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learn	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sew	cc
16	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 learn	parataxis
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thing	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thing	det
24	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 glass	det
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 glass	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 looking	punct
32	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 art	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 art	punct
36	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 art	nsubj
37	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 said	ccomp
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 art	obj
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 nice	case
40	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 more	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 art	punct
42	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 art	nsubj
43	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 art	xcomp
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 beautiful	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		Karen	cleanly, nicely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	learn	must	Karen			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	Karen not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sew	infinitive	Karen not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	Karen	a nice little thing		tree rules
7	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert	past	the looking glass			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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