Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 14
They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made for little Karen.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, make · To what, where: those
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handsomer | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handsomer | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 handsomer | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 handsomer | advmod |
| 5 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 9 | Shoemaker | Shoemaker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dame | flat |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 handsomer | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Karen | case |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Karen | amod |
| 14 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handsomer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | certainly, far, handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | those | for little Karen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for karen=Beneficiary |
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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