Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 13

She wore neither a train nor a golden crown, but beautiful red morocco shoes; they were indeed much finer than those which the shoemaker's wife had sewn for little Karen.

Who acts: Karen, train, wife · What happens: wear, be, sew · To what, where: train

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, train, wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 train	cc:preconj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 train	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 crown	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crown	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crown	amod
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 train	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shoes	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 shoes	cc
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoes	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoes	amod
14	morocco	morocco	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shoes	compound
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 finer	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finer	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 finer	cop
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 finer	advmod
21	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 wore	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 those	case
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 finer	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sewn	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shoemaker	det
26	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wife	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 shoemaker	case
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sewn	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sewn	aux
30	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 those	acl:relcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 Karen	case
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Karen	amod
33	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sewn	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Karen	a train nor a golden crown	beautiful red morocco shoes obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent train=Theme
2	is	past	train		than those; fine property	tree rules
3	sew	past · perfect	the shoemaker's wife		for little Karen	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for karen=Beneficiary

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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