Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 9

Karen herself was dressed very neatly and cleanly; she was taught to read and to sew, and people said that she was pretty.

Who acts: Karen, people · What happens: dress, teach, read, sew, say, be · To what, where: Karen · 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, people), 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	4 dressed	nsubj
2	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Karen	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 neatly	advmod
6	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	4 dressed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cleanly	cc
8	cleanly	cleanly	ADV	_	6 neatly	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 taught	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taught	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taught	aux:pass
12	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dressed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 taught	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sew	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sew	mark
17	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 pretty	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pretty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pretty	cop
25	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	21 said	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive		Karen	neatly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	teach speech: other	past · passive		Karen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	Karen not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sew	to-infinitive	Karen not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Karen		pretty property	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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