Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 2

In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.

Who acts: girl, shoes, Shoemaker · What happens: live, sit, sew, be · To what, where: old Dame Shoemaker, middle, kind thought

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 (girl, shoes, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Shoemaker	amod
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Shoemaker	compound
10	Shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sewed	cc
15	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 sewed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 could	punct
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 could	cc
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	ADP	_	18 as	fixed
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pair	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pair	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pair	amod
26	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 could	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 shoes	case
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pair	nmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	33 strips	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 strips	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 strips	amod
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 strips	amod
33	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shoes	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 cloth	case
35	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 strips	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 clumsy	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 clumsy	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 clumsy	cop
39	very	very	ADV	_	40 clumsy	advmod
40	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lived	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thought	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 thought	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thought	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 thought	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 thought	det
46	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 thought	amod
47	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 clumsy	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		old Dame Shoemaker	the middle of the village		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme shoemaker=Location
2	sit	past	girl				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sew	past	girl not said here			together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	shoes = shoe			clumsy property	tree rules
5	is a	past	Shoemaker	a kind thought			tree rules

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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