Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 50

She looked at the red shoes, saying to herself that there was no sin in doing that; she put the red shoes on, thinking there was no harm in that either; and then she went to the ball; and commenced to dance.

Who acts: Karen, sin, harm · What happens: look, say, be, do, put, think · To what, where: Karen, sin, red shoes, ball · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sin, harm), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 shoes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoes	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 herself	case
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 saying	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 was	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sin	det
15	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 doing	mark
17	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sin	acl
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 doing	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shoes	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
25	on	on	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thinking	punct
27	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 put	advcl
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thinking	ccomp
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 harm	det
31	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 harm	nmod
34	either	either	CCONJ	_	31 harm	cc
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 went	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 ball	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ball	det
42	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 commenced	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 commenced	cc
45	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 dance	mark
47	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 commenced	xcomp
48	.	.	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 shoes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Karen not said here		Karen				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	be	past	no sin			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	gerund	no sin not said here	no sin					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
5	put	past	Karen	the red shoes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal
6	think speech: other	gerund	Karen not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	be	past	no harm in that			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	Karen			the ball	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location
9	commence	past	Karen not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	dance	to-infinitive	Karen not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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