Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 25

“Yes, they shine!” said Karen, and they fitted, and were bought, but the old lady knew nothing about their being red, else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone in red shoes to be confirmed.

Who acts: shoes, Karen, old lady, lady · What happens: shine, say, fit, buy, know, be · To what, where: nothing, lady, Karen, red shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shoes, Karen, old lady, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 shine	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shine	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shine	nsubj
5	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 shine	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 shine	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fitted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fitted	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fitted	nsubj
13	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bought	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	aux:pass
17	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lady	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lady	amod
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	conj
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 knew	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 red	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 red	nmod:poss
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 red	cop
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nothing	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 allowed	punct
30	else	else	ADV	_	35 allowed	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 allowed	nsubj:pass
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 allowed	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 allowed	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 allowed	aux
35	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
36	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 allowed	iobj
37	to	to	PART	_	39 gone	mark
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 gone	aux
39	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 allowed	xcomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 shoes	case
41	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 shoes	amod
42	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 gone	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	45 confirmed	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 confirmed	aux:pass
45	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 gone	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine in a quote	present	shoes = shoe					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Karen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fit	past	shoes = shoe					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	buy	past · passive	Karen not said here					vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»
5	know	past	the old lady	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	is	gerund					red property	tree rules
7	not allow	would · perfect · passive		lady	Karen		else property	tree rules
8	go not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	lady not said here			red shoes		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location
9	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	lady not said here					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»

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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