Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 91

All the children liked her very much, but when they spoke about dress and grandeur and beauty she would shake her head.

Who acts: children, Karen · What happens: like, speak, shake · To what, where: Karen, head · 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 (children, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 spoke	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 spoke	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 dress	case
14	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoke	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grandeur	cc
16	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dress	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beauty	cc
18	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dress	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shake	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 shake	aux
21	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beauty	acl:relcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shake	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	all children	Karen		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	children = child		about dress and grandeur and beauty	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dress=Topic
3	shake	would	Karen	Karen's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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