Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 16

The rich shoemaker in the town took the measure of her little foot in his own room, in which there stood great glass cases full of pretty shoes and white slippers.

Who acts: rich shoemaker · What happens: take, stand, measure · To what, where: measure, own room, great glass cases, little foot

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 (rich shoemaker), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shoemaker	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoemaker	amod
3	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoemaker	nmod
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 measure	det
9	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 foot	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 foot	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 foot	amod
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measure	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 room	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 room	amod
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stood	obl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 stood	advmod
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cases	amod
24	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cases	compound
25	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stood	obj
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stood	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 shoes	case
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shoes	amod
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 slippers	cc
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 slippers	amod
32	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shoes	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the rich shoemaker in the town	the measure of shoemaker's little foot	mirror's own room		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent measure=Value in room=Location
2	stand	past	the rich shoemaker in the town not said here	great glass cases	there	full property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme in which=Destination
3	measure			shoemaker's little foot			nom measure «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: «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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