Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 32

At the church door stood an old soldier with a crutch, and with a wonderfully long beard, which was more red than white, and he bowed to the ground, and asked the old lady whether he might dust her shoes.

Who acts: long beard, sacrament · What happens: stand, be, bow, ask, dust · To what, where: old soldier, church door, old lady, shoes

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 (long beard, sacrament), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldier	amod
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 crutch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crutch	det
11	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beard	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 beard	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 beard	det
16	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beard	amod
18	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 red	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 red	cop
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 red	amod
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beard	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 white	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 red	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bowed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bowed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bowed	nsubj
29	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bowed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lady	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lady	amod
38	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	iobj
39	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	42 dust	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dust	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 dust	aux
42	dust	dust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 asked	xcomp
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoes	nmod:poss
44	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 dust	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a old soldier		the church door	with a crutch; with a long beard	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme at door=Destination
2	is	past	a long beard				than white; red property	tree rules
3	bow	past	sacrament				to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past			the old lady			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic
5	dust not said to happen	might	sacrament	lady's shoes				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

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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