Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 43
At length she took the shoes off, and then her legs had peace.
Who acts: Karen, legs · What happens: take off, have · To what, where: shoes, length, peace
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, legs), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoes | det |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 had | advmod |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Karen | the shoes | length | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Karen's legs | peace | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
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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