Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 61
Dance shalt thou from door to door, and where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they may hear thee and tremble!
Who acts: proud vain children, thou, legs · What happens: dwell, knock, hear, tremble · To what, where: thee
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 (proud vain children, thou, legs), 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 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 door | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 door | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knock | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knock | cc |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 dwell | advmod |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proud | punct |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dwell | nsubj |
| 15 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 knock | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dwell | punct |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 knock | nsubj |
| 18 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 knock | aux |
| 19 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 door | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hear | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 hear | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hear | aux |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knock | advcl |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 hear | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tremble | cc |
| 27 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hear | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 door | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | proud vain children | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | knock | shall | thou | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hear | may | legs = leg | thee | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tremble | infinitive | legs = leg not said here | 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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