--- title: There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but i… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous! 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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 (little girl, girl, large wooden shoes, that), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:27:1 # text = There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous! 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 35 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 insteps instep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 quite quite ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 51 nsubj _ _ 51 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 52 so so ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a little girl | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a little girl | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a little girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **force** | past · passive | | girl | | | summer | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **run about** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | with bare feet; about *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with foot=Material | | 6 | **is** | past | girl | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **wear** | present | girl *not said here* | large wooden shoes | | | winter | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 8 | **make** | past | large wooden shoes | girl's little insteps | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instep=Product | | 9 | **look** | past | that | | | | | dangerous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [The Naughty Boy, 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/48/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/2/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/)