Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 16

Now Karen was old enough to be confirmed; she had new clothes and was to have new shoes also.

Who acts: Karen · What happens: be, confirm, have · To what, where: new clothes, new shoes

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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 old	advmod
2	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 confirmed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 confirmed	aux:pass
8	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clothes	amod
13	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 had	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoes	amod
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	also	also	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Karen		now	enough, old property	tree rules
2	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	Karen not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
3	have	past	Karen	new clothes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	have	past	Karen not said here	new shoes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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