Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 17
The rich shoemaker in the city took the measure of her little foot.
Who acts: rich shoemaker · What happens: take, measure · To what, where: measure, little foot
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 (rich shoemaker), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoemaker | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoemaker | amod |
| 3 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoemaker | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 measure | det |
| 9 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 foot | amod |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 measure | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the rich shoemaker in the city | the measure of Karen's little foot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | measure | Karen's little foot | nom measure «act 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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