Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 3

In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth.

Who acts: wife · What happens: live, sit down, make · To what, where: wife, middle, pair

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 (wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shoemaker	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shoemaker	amod
10	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 shoemaker	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pair	punct
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	24 could	cc
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pair	aux
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pair	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pair	det
27	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 shoes	case
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shoes	amod
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pair	nmod
31	out	out	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 pieces	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pieces	amod
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shoes	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cloth	case
37	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cloth	amod
38	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pieces	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past		a old shoemaker's wife	the middle of the village	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wife=Location
2	sit down	past	wife	a pair of little shoes out some old pieces of red cloth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	participle	wife not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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