Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 7

Just then a large old carriage came by, and in it sat an old lady; she looked at the little girl, and taking pity on her, said to the clergyman, "Look here, if you will give me the little girl, I will take care of her."

Who acts: large old carriage, Karen, clergyman · What happens: come by, sit, look, take, say, give · To what, where: old lady, carriage, pity, clergyman, little girl, large old carriage · 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 (large old carriage, Karen, clergyman), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carriage	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carriage	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carriage	amod
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	obl
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lady	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 girl	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girl	amod
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
27	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 clergyman	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clergyman	det
34	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Look	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Look	punct
37	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 said	parataxis
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 Look	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 give	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 give	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 give	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 give	aux
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Look	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 girl	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 girl	amod
47	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 take	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 take	aux
51	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	parataxis
52	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 take	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come by	past	a large old carriage				then		tree rules
2	sit	past	a large old carriage not said here	a old lady		carriage			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in it=Location
3	look	past	Karen					at the little girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme
4	take	gerund	a large old carriage not said here	pity				on Karen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	a large old carriage not said here		the clergyman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clergyman=Recipient clause=Topic
6	look in a quote	infinitive				here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the clergyman = clergyman	the little girl	a large old carriage = carriage				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient girl=Theme
8	take in a quote	future	a large old carriage = carriage	care				of Karen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial_Location

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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