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title: In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes ha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had been red, and she said that it was very wrong of Karen, that it was not at all becoming, and that in future Karen should only go in black shoes to church, even when she should be older. Who acts: old lady, shoes, lady, organ. A se
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 29

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In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had been red, and she said that it was very wrong of Karen, that it was not at all becoming, and that in future Karen should only go in black shoes to church, even when she should be older.

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**Who acts:** old lady, shoes, lady, organ, that · **What happens:** hear, be, say, not be, go · **To what, where:** everyone, becoming, black 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 (old lady, shoes, lady, organ), 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:pg1597:27:29
# text = In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had been red, and she said that it was very wrong of Karen, that it was not at all becoming, and that in future Karen should only go in black shoes to church, even when she should be older.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	becoming	becoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	even	even	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | the old lady |  |  | everyone | afternoon |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from everyone=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the shoes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | organ |  |  |  |  | of Karen; wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | organ |  |  | all becoming |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | should | that |  |  | black shoes |  | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is** | should | lady |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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