Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 39
Karen raised her foot to get in after her, when the old soldier said,
Who acts: Karen, old soldier · What happens: raise, get in, say · To what, where: foot · 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 (Karen, old soldier), 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 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 foot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 raised | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 said | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldier | amod |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Karen | Karen's foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | Karen not said here | after Karen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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