Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 29

In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had been red, and she said that it was very wrong of Karen, that it was not at all becoming, and that in future Karen should only go in black shoes to church, even when she should be older.

Who acts: old lady, shoes, lady, organ, that · What happens: hear, be, say, not be, go · To what, where: everyone, becoming, black 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 (old lady, shoes, lady, organ), 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 afternoon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 afternoon	det
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 afternoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 heard	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 red	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoes	det
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 red	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 red	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 red	cop
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 everyone	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 wrong	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wrong	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wrong	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 wrong	advmod
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Karen	case
27	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wrong	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 becoming	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 becoming	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 becoming	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 becoming	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 becoming	advmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 becoming	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 becoming	det
35	becoming	becoming	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 go	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 go	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 Karen	case
40	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Karen	amod
41	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 that	nmod
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 go	advmod
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	parataxis
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 shoes	case
46	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 shoes	amod
47	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 go	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 church	case
49	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 older	punct
51	even	even	ADV	_	56 older	advmod
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	56 older	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 older	nsubj
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 older	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 older	cop
56	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 go	parataxis
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle	the old lady	everyone	afternoon		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from everyone=Source
2	is	past · perfect	the shoes			red property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	organ			of Karen; wrong property	tree rules
5	not is	past	organ	all becoming			tree rules
6	go	should	that	black shoes		to church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
7	is	should	lady			old property	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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