Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 35

“Sit firm when you dance”; and he put his hand out towards the soles.

Who acts: you, soldier · What happens: sit, dance, put out · To what, where: hand

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 (you, soldier), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Sit	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dance	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dance	nsubj
6	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	advcl
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Sit	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	11 put	compound:prt
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	17 soles	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soles	det
17	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	imperative	you not said here		firm property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance in a quote	present	you			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put out	past	soldier	soldier's hand	towards the soles	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal

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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