Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 6
They were certainly not intended for mourning, but she had no others, and with stockingless feet she followed the poor straw coffin in them.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: not intend, have, follow · To what, where: shoes, others, poor straw coffin
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 intended | aux:pass |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 intended | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 intended | advmod |
| 5 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mourning | case |
| 7 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 intended | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | stockingless | stockingless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feet | amod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coffin | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coffin | amod |
| 23 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coffin | compound |
| 24 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 coffin | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not intend | past · passive | shoes = shoe | for mourning; certainly property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Karen | no others | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Karen | the poor straw coffin | with stockingless feet; in shoes = shoe | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme in they=Trajectory |
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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