Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 2

But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she had to wear large wooden shoes, so that her little instep grew quite red.

Who acts: dainty, winter, little instep · What happens: oblige, go, be, have, wear, grow · To what, where: dainty, winter, large wooden 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 (dainty, winter, little instep), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 obliged	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obliged	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obliged	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obliged	aux:pass
7	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obliged	xcomp
10	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 poor	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 poor	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poor	cop
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 barefooted	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 winter	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 winter	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obliged	obl:unmarked
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 winter	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wear	mark
22	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shoes	amod
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shoes	amod
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wear	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grew	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 grew	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 instep	nmod:poss
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 instep	amod
31	instep	instep	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wear	advcl
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 red	advmod
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grew	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		dainty	time; winter		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	go	to-infinitive				barefooted property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	dainty			poor property	tree rules
4	have	past	dainty	winter not said here			tree rules
5	wear	to-infinitive	winter not said here	large wooden shoes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
6	grow	past	dainty's little instep			red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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