Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 102
Her soul flew on the sunshine to God, and there no one asked after the RED SHOES.
Who acts: soul, one · What happens: fly, ask · To what, where: God, sunshine
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 (soul, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 soul | nmod:poss |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sunshine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunshine | det |
| 6 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 asked | expl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 SHOES | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 SHOES | det |
| 17 | RED | RED | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 SHOES | compound |
| 18 | SHOES | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Karen's soul | God | the sunshine | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sunshine=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | no one | there | after the RED SHOES | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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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