Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 24

But the old lady knew nothing of their being red, for she would never have allowed Karen to be confirmed in red shoes, as she was now to be.

Who acts: old lady, lady, Karen · What happens: know, be, not allow, confirm · To what, where: nothing, lady, Karen, red 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 (old lady, lady, Karen), 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	_	5 knew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 knew	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 red	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 red	nmod:poss
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 red	cop
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 allowed	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 allowed	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 allowed	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 allowed	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 allowed	aux
17	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knew	conj
18	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 allowed	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 confirmed	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 confirmed	aux:pass
21	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 allowed	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 shoes	case
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 confirmed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 be	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 be	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 be	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 be	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 be	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 be	mark
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 confirmed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the old lady	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	is	gerund						red property	tree rules
3	not allow	would · perfect · passive		lady	Karen				tree rules
4	confirm not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	lady not said here			red shoes			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
5	is	past	Karen				now	be property	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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