Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 50

When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes would dance to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced back again, down the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate.

Who acts: Karen, shoes · What happens: want, dance, dance up · To what, where: right, left, room

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, shoes), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wanted	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dance	mark
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 right	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 right	det
8	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dance	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoes	det
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dance	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dance	aux
13	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dance	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 left	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 left	det
16	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dance	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wanted	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dance	mark
23	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 dance	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dance	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 danced	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shoes	det
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danced	nsubj
30	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 room	acl:relcl
31	back	back	ADV	_	32 again	advmod
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 danced	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 steps	punct
34	down	down	ADP	_	36 steps	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 steps	det
36	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danced	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 street	punct
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 street	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 street	det
40	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 steps	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gate	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gate	cc
43	out	out	ADP	_	47 gate	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 gate	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 gate	det
46	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gate	compound
47	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Karen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	Karen not said here		the right			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory
3	dance	would	the shoes		the left			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory
4	want	past	Karen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	dance up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Karen not said here	the room				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
6	dance	past	the shoes	the room not said here		again	down the steps and the street	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme room=Destination down step=Trajectory

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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