Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 46
At home the shoes were put into the cupboard, but Karen could not help looking at them.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: put, not help, look · To what, where: shoes, home
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 home | case |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shoes | det |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cupboard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cupboard | det |
| 9 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 12 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | conj |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 help | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the shoes | home | into the cupboard | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at home=Destination | |||
| 2 | not help | could | Karen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | gerund | Karen not said here | at shoes = shoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
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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