Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 30
The next Sunday there was the sacrament, and Karen looked at the black shoes, looked at the red ones--looked at them again, and put on the red shoes.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: look, put · To what, where: red shoes
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 (Karen), 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 Sunday | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sunday | amod |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Sunday | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sacrament | det |
| 7 | sacrament | sacrament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 shoes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoes | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shoes | amod |
| 15 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 ones | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ones | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | obl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 put | cc |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 looked | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 shoes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shoes | det |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shoes | amod |
| 33 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 put | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Karen | sunday | at the black shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Karen not said here | at the red ones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | again | at shoes = shoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | participle | the red shoes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination |
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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