Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 5
On the very day her mother was buried, Karen received the red shoes, and wore them for the first time.
Who acts: day, Karen · What happens: bury, receive, wear · To what, where: mother, red shoes, shoes
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 (day, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buried | aux:pass |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 10 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shoes | amod |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 received | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wore | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wore | cc |
| 17 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wore | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wore | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | the day not said here | girl's mother | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | Karen | the red shoes | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 3 | wear | past | Karen not said here | shoes = shoe | time | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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