Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 56

She wished to seat herself on a poor man's grave, where the bitter tansy grew; but for her there was neither peace nor rest; and when she danced towards the open church door, she saw an angel standing there.

Who acts: Karen, bitter tansy, peace, angel · What happens: wish, grow, be, dance, see, stand · To what, where: seat, grave, open church door, angel

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, bitter tansy, peace, angel), 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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 seat	mark
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obj
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wished	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 grave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grave	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 grew	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tansy	det
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tansy	amod
16	tansy	tansy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grave	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 was	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 was	obl
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 peace	cc:preconj
25	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 rest	cc
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peace	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 danced	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 danced	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 danced	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 danced	nsubj
32	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
33	towards	towards	ADP	_	37 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 door	det
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 door	amod
36	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 door	compound
37	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 danced	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saw	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 saw	nsubj
40	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 danced	conj
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 angel	det
42	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 saw	obj
43	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 angel	acl
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 standing	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Karen	seat	a poor man's grave	Karen obl	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot seat=Theme
2	grow	past	the bitter tansy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	peace nor rest		there	for Karen	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	Karen		the open church door		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme towards door=Trajectory
5	see	past	Karen	a angel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus
6	stand	gerund	a angel not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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