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title: Karen was now old enough to be confirmed; she received some new clot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Karen was now old enough to be confirmed; she received some new clothes, and she was also to have some new shoes. Who acts: Karen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 15

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Karen was now old enough to be confirmed; she received some new clothes, and she was also to have some new shoes.

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**Who acts:** Karen · **What happens:** be, confirm, receive, have · **To what, where:** new clothes, new shoes

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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), 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:pg27200:154:15
# text = Karen was now old enough to be confirmed; she received some new clothes, and she was also to have some new shoes.
1	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Karen |  |  |  | now | enough, old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **confirm** | to-infinitive · passive | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |
| 3 | **receive** | past | Karen | some new clothes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Karen | some new shoes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |

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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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