Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 86
And she went to the parsonage, and begged that they would take her into service; she would be very industrious, she said, and would do everything she could; she did not care about the wages, only she wished to have a home, and be with good people.
Who acts: Karen, shoes · What happens: go, beg, take, be, say, do · To what, where: parsonage, Karen, service, everything, home · 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, shoes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 parsonage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parsonage | det |
| 6 | parsonage | parsonage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begged | cc |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 begged | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 service | case |
| 16 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 industrious | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 industrious | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 industrious | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 industrious | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 industrious | advmod |
| 22 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 industrious | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 do | cc |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 do | obj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 everything | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 care | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 care | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 care | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 care | advmod |
| 37 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 wages | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wages | det |
| 40 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 care | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 wished | punct |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 wished | advmod |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wished | nsubj |
| 44 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 have | mark |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 wished | xcomp |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 home | det |
| 48 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 have | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 people | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 people | cc |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 people | cop |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 people | case |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 people | amod |
| 54 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 have | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Karen | the parsonage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parsonage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Karen not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | would | shoes = shoe | Karen | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | would | Karen | industrious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Karen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do | would | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | not care | past · do-support | Karen | about the wages | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about wage=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | wish | past | Karen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Karen not said here | a home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 10 | is | infinitive | with good people | tree rules |
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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