Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 5
Karen received the shoes and wore them for the first time on the day of her mother's funeral.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: receive, wear · 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 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shoes | det |
| 4 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 received | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wore | cc |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 received | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wore | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 funeral | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 19 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Karen | the shoes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | Karen not said here | shoes = shoe | day; time | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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