Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 41

And Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began her feet continued to dance; it was just as though the shoes had power over them.

Who acts: Karen, feet, shoes, step · What happens: not help, dance, begin, continue, have, be · To what, where: step, power

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 (Karen, feet, shoes, step), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 help	cc
2	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 help	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 step	det
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 two	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 step	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 began	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 continued	nsubj
18	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 dance	mark
20	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 continued	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 power	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 power	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 power	cop
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 as	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	30 power	advmod
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shoes	det
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 as	advcl
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 power	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Karen			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dance not said to happen	gerund	Karen not said here	a step		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
3	begin	past	Karen			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	continue	past	Karen's feet			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	dance	to-infinitive	Karen's feet not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	past	the shoes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	step	power	over shoes = shoe	tree rules

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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