Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 55
She danced over the churchyard, but the dead did not dance--they had something better to do than to dance.
Who acts: Karen, dead, shoes · What happens: dance, not dance, have, do · To what, where: churchyard, something
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, dead, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 churchyard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 churchyard | det |
| 5 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dance | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dance | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dead | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dance | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dance | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dance | advmod |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 danced | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | conj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 better | acl |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 dance | mark |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 dance | mark |
| 22 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Karen | the churchyard | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over churchyard=Location | ||||
| 2 | not dance | past · do-support | the dead | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | shoes = shoe | something | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dance | to-infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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