Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 29

She said that it was a shocking thing to do, that it was very improper, and that Karen was always to go to church in future in black shoes, even if they were old.

Who acts: Karen, organ, shoes · What happens: say, be, do · To what, where: shocking thing, future · 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 (Karen, organ, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 thing	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 improper	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 improper	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 improper	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 improper	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 improper	advmod
16	improper	improper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
20	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 go	cop
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 go	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 church	case
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 future	case
28	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 go	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 shoes	case
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shoes	amod
31	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 old	punct
33	even	even	ADV	_	37 old	advmod
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 old	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 old	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 old	cop
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 go	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Karen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	organ	a shocking thing			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	Karen not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	organ			improper property	tree rules
5	is	past	Karen		future	to church; in black shoes; always, go property	tree rules
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	shoes = shoe			old 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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