Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 4
They were clumsy, but she meant well, for they were intended for the little girl, whose name was Karen.
Who acts: shoes, wife, name, Karen · What happens: be, mean, intend, name · To what, where: shoes, Karen
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 (shoes, wife, name, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clumsy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clumsy | cop |
| 3 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meant | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 meant | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clumsy | parataxis |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 meant | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 intended | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 intended | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 intended | aux:pass |
| 13 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 meant | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 intended | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Karen | punct |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Karen | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Karen | cop |
| 22 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clumsy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shoes = shoe | clumsy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | wife | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | intend | past · passive | shoes = shoe | for the little girl | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Karen's name | Karen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Karen | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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