Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 38
And all the people inside looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the figures gazed at them; when Karen knelt before the altar and put the golden goblet to her mouth, she thought only of the red shoes.
Who acts: people, figures, Karen · What happens: look, gaze, kneel, put, think · To what, where: altar, golden goblet
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 (people, figures, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 shoes | case |
| 8 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Karen | case |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoes | amod |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gazed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 figures | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 figures | det |
| 16 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gazed | nsubj |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 knelt | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 knelt | advmod |
| 22 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 knelt | nsubj |
| 23 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gazed | conj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 altar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 altar | det |
| 26 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knelt | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 put | cc |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 knelt | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 goblet | det |
| 30 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 goblet | amod |
| 31 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 mouth | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 thought | nsubj |
| 37 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 shoes | advmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 shoes | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 shoes | det |
| 41 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 shoes | amod |
| 42 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | all people | at Karen's red shoes; inside property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | all figures | at shoes = shoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | Karen | the altar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Karen not said here | the golden goblet | to Karen's mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent goblet=Goal | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Karen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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