Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 48

She looked at the old lady, who could not recover, she looked at the red shoes, and she thought there could be no sin in it; she put on the red shoes, she might do that also, she thought.

Who acts: Karen, old lady · What happens: look, not recover, think, be, put, do · To what, where: sin, red shoes, that · 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 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 lady	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 recover	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 recover	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 recover	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 recover	advmod
11	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lady	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 shoes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoes	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looked	conj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 thought	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sin	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sin	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 sin	det
27	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sin	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 shoes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shoes	det
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shoes	amod
36	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 put	conj
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 do	obj
42	also	also	ADV	_	40 do	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Karen			at the old lady	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lady=Theme
2	not recover	could	the old lady				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	Karen			at the red shoes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Karen		there		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	could		no sin	sin		tree rules
6	put	past	Karen		the red shoes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
7	do	might	Karen	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
8	think speech: other	past	Karen				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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