Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 36
And the old lady gave the old soldier alms, and went into the church with Karen.
Who acts: old lady · What happens: give, go · To what, where: old soldier alms, church
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 alms | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 alms | amod |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alms | compound |
| 9 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Karen | case |
| 17 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 church | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old lady | the old soldier alms | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the old lady not said here | the church with Karen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location |
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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