Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 23
They fitted her, and were bought.
Who acts: shoes · What happens: fit, buy · To what, where: Karen
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 (shoes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fitted | nsubj |
| 2 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fitted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bought | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bought | aux:pass |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fitted | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | shoes = shoe | Karen | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | buy | past · passive | shoes = shoe not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
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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