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title: They were certainly not suitable for mourning; but she had no others… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were certainly not suitable for mourning; but she had no others, and so she put her bare feet into them and walked behind the humble coffin. Who acts: shoes, Karen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 6

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They were certainly not suitable for mourning; but she had no others, and so she put her bare feet into them and walked behind the humble coffin.

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**Who acts:** shoes, Karen · **What happens:** not be, have, put, walk · **To what, where:** others, bare feet, humble coffin

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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 (shoes, 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:pg27200:154:6
# text = They were certainly not suitable for mourning; but she had no others, and so she put her bare feet into them and walked behind the humble coffin.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  | for mourning; certainly, suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Karen | no others |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | past | Karen | Karen's bare feet |  |  |  | into shoes *= shoe* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Karen *not said here* |  |  | the humble coffin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind coffin=Trajectory |

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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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