--- title: But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed; she must learn to… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed; she must learn to read and sew; and people said she was a nice little thing, but the looking-glass said: “Thou art more than nice, thou art beautiful!” Who acts: Karen, people, looking glass. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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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, looking glass), 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:pg1597:27:11 # text = But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed; she must learn to read and sew; and people said she was a nice little thing, but the looking-glass said: “Thou art more than nice, thou art beautiful!” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 appos _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 5 cleanly cleanly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 nicely nicely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nsubj _ _ 37 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 38 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 obj _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 43 nsubj _ _ 43 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 44 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | past · passive | | Karen | | | | cleanly, nicely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **learn** | must | Karen | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sew** | 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 a** | past | Karen | a nice little thing | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the looking glass | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/12/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/)