Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 18
Amongst the shoes stood a pair of red ones, like those which the princess had worn.
What happens: stand, wear · To what, where: pair, shoes, princess
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: 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 | Amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 3 shoes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoes | det |
| 3 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 those | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stood | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 worn | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worn | aux |
| 17 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a pair of red ones | the shoes | like those | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pair=Theme amongst shoe=Destination | |||
| 2 | wear | past · perfect · passive | the princess | 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: «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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