Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 56
She tore off her stockings, but the shoes had grown fast to her feet.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: tore off, grow · To what, where: stockings, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tore | nsubj |
| 2 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 stockings | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stockings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tore | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grown | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grown | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoes | det |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grown | aux |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tore | conj |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 grown | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grown | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore off | past | Karen | Karen's stockings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect · passive | the shoes | to Karen's feet result; fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to foot=Result |
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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