Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 8
Karen believed that this was all on account of the red shoes, but the old lady thought them hideous, and so they were burnt.
Who acts: Karen, this, old lady · What happens: believe, be, think, burnt · To what, where: account, 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, this, old lady), 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 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 account | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 account | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 account | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 account | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shoes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shoes | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 account | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | obj |
| 20 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 burnt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burnt | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 burnt | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 burnt | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burnt | aux:pass |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 believed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Karen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this | account | of the red shoes; all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the old lady | shoes = shoe | hideous property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 4 | burnt | past · passive | shoes = shoe | tree rules |
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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