Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 87
And the clergyman's wife was sorry for her and took her into service; and she was industrious and thoughtful.
Who acts: wife, Karen · What happens: be, take · To what, where: Karen, service
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 (wife, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sorry | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clergyman | det |
| 3 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 clergyman | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sorry | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 industrious | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 industrious | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 industrious | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 industrious | cop |
| 19 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sorry | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thoughtful | cc |
| 21 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 industrious | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the clergyman's wife | for Karen; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the clergyman's wife not said here | Karen | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into service=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | Karen | industrious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Karen not said here | 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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