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title: She wore neither a train nor a golden crown, but beautiful red moroc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She wore neither a train nor a golden crown, but beautiful red morocco shoes; they were indeed much finer than those which the shoemaker's wife had sewn for little Karen. Who acts: Karen, train, wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its d
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 13

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She wore neither a train nor a golden crown, but beautiful red morocco shoes; they were indeed much finer than those which the shoemaker's wife had sewn for little Karen.

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**Who acts:** Karen, train, wife · **What happens:** wear, be, sew · **To what, where:** train

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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 (Karen, train, wife), 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:pg27200:154:13
# text = She wore neither a train nor a golden crown, but beautiful red morocco shoes; they were indeed much finer than those which the shoemaker's wife had sewn for little Karen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc:preconj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	morocco	morocco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Karen | a train nor a golden crown |  |  |  | beautiful red morocco shoes *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent train=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | train |  |  |  |  | than those; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sew** | past · perfect | the shoemaker's wife |  |  |  |  | for little Karen | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for karen=Beneficiary |

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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:** «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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