Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 89
All the children thought a great deal of her; but when they spoke of dress, and grandeur, and beauty, she shook her head.
Who acts: children, wives, Karen · What happens: think, speak, shake, deal · To what, where: great deal, grandeur, beauty, Karen · 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 (children, wives, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 children | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deal | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 spoke | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dress | case |
| 16 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grandeur | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grandeur | cc |
| 19 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoke | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shook | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shook | cc |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beauty | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shook | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | all children | a great deal of Karen | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | wives = wife | grandeur | of dress | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | shake | past | Karen | beauty | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | deal | Karen | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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