Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 44
The shoes were placed in a closet at home, but Karen could not avoid looking at them.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: place, not avoid, look · To what, where: shoes, closet
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 | 2 shoes | det |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 closet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 closet | det |
| 7 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closet | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 avoid | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 avoid | cc |
| 12 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 avoid | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 avoid | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 avoid | advmod |
| 15 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 placed | advcl |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 avoid | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the shoes | a closet at home | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in closet=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not avoid | could | Karen | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Karen not said here | at shoes = shoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
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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