Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 19
All this looked charming, but the old lady could not see well, and so had no pleasure in them.
Who acts: this, old lady · What happens: look, not see, have · To what, where: charming, pleasure
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 (this, old lady), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 looked | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lady | amod |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 pleasure | det |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | this | charming | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme charming=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | the old lady | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | this not said here | no pleasure | in shoes = shoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=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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