Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 31
Karen looked first at the black shoes, then at the red ones--looked at the red ones again, and put them on.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: look, put on · To what, where: 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 (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 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 shoes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoes | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoes | amod |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ones | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 ones | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ones | det |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 ones | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 put | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Karen | at the red ones; at the black shoes; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Karen not said here | at the red ones | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put on | infinitive | Karen not said here | shoes = shoe | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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