Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 19
How beautiful they were! and the shoemaker said that they had been made for a count's daughter, but that they had not fitted her.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: be, say, make, not fit · To what, where: shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 were | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoemaker | det |
| 8 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 count | det |
| 17 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 count | case |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fitted | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 fitted | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 fitted | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fitted | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 fitted | advmod |
| 26 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | parataxis |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fitted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | shoes = shoe | for a count's daughter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for daughter=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not fit | past · perfect · passive | shoes = shoe | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination |
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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