Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 53

Then she was terrified, and wanted to fling off the red shoes, but they clung fast; and she pulled down her stockings, but the shoes seemed to have grown to her feet.

Who acts: Karen, shoes · What happens: be, want, fling off, cling, pull down, seem · To what, where: red shoes, stockings

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 terrified	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 terrified	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fling	mark
9	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 fling	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoes	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoes	amod
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fling	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clung	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 clung	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 clung	nsubj
17	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	conj
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 clung	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pulled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pulled	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pulled	nsubj
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 pulled	compound:prt
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 stockings	nmod:poss
25	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seemed	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 seemed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shoes	det
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 grown	mark
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 grown	aux
33	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 seemed	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 feet	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 feet	nmod:poss
36	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grown	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Karen		then	terrified property	tree rules
2	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fling off not said to happen	to-infinitive		the red shoes			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
4	cling	past	shoes = shoe			fast property	vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
5	pull down	past	Karen	Karen's stockings			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stocking=Theme
6	seem	past	the shoes				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	grow	to-infinitive · perfect	the shoes not said here			to Karen's feet	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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