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title: “Yes, they shine!” said Karen, and they fitted, and were bought, but… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, they shine!” said Karen, and they fitted, and were bought, but the old lady knew nothing about their being red, else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone in red shoes to be confirmed. Who acts: shoes, Karen, old lady, lady. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 25

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“Yes, they shine!” said Karen, and they fitted, and were bought, but the old lady knew nothing about their being red, else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone in red shoes to be confirmed.

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**Who acts:** shoes, Karen, old lady, lady · **What happens:** shine, say, fit, buy, know, be · **To what, where:** nothing, lady, Karen, red shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (shoes, Karen, old lady, lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:27:25
# text = “Yes, they shine!” said Karen, and they fitted, and were bought, but the old lady knew nothing about their being red, else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone in red shoes to be confirmed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	else	else	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
36	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	iobj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	xcomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** *in a quote* | present | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fit** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** | past · passive | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
| 5 | **know** | past | the old lady | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **allow** | would · perfect · passive |  | lady | Karen |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect | lady *not said here* |  |  | red shoes |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location |
| 9 | **confirm** | to-infinitive · passive | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |

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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.

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**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.

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