Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 52

Then it was suddenly light up among the trees, and she fancied it must be the moon, for there was a face; but it was the old soldier with the red beard; he sat there, nodded his head, and said, “Look, what beautiful dancing shoes!”

Who acts: wood, Karen, face · What happens: be, fancy, sit, nod, say, look · To what, where: moon, old soldier, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wood, Karen, face), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 light	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 light	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
5	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 light	compound:prt
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 light	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fancied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fancied	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fancied	nsubj
13	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 light	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 moon	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 moon	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 moon	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fancied	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 was	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fancied	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 soldier	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 soldier	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 soldier	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 soldier	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soldier	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soldier	amod
31	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 beard	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beard	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 beard	amod
35	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 soldier	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 sat	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sat	nsubj
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 light	parataxis
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 sat	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 nodded	punct
41	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sat	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 nodded	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sat	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Look	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 Look	punct
49	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 said	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 what	punct
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	49 Look	obl
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 shoes	amod
53	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shoes	compound
54	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 what	nsubj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 Look	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood			then	among the trees; light, suddenly property	tree rules
2	fancy	past	Karen					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	must	wood	the moon				tree rules
4	be	past	a face		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	wood	the old soldier			with the red beard	tree rules
6	sit	past	face		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	nod	past	face not said here	face's head				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
8	say speech: express	past	face not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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