Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 15

Karen was now old enough to be confirmed; she received some new clothes, and she was also to have some new shoes.

Who acts: Karen · What happens: be, confirm, receive, have · To what, where: new clothes, new shoes

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), 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	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 confirmed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 confirmed	aux:pass
8	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 received	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 received	nsubj
11	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 clothes	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clothes	amod
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 received	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 have	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 received	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 shoes	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Karen		now	enough, old property	tree rules
2	confirm	to-infinitive · passive	Karen not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
3	receive	past	Karen	some new clothes			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
4	have	past	Karen	some new shoes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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: «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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