Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 64

But she did not hear the angel's reply, for the shoes carried her through the gate into the fields, across roads and bridges, and she must keep ever dancing.

Who acts: Mercy, shoes, angel · What happens: not hear, carry, keep, dance, reply · To what, where: reply, Mercy, gate

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 (Mercy, shoes, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 hear	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 angel	det
7	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reply	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 angel	case
9	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 carried	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoes	det
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	nsubj
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gate	det
18	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 fields	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fields	det
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roads	punct
23	across	across	ADP	_	24 roads	case
24	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bridges	cc
26	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roads	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 keep	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 keep	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 keep	aux
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 carried	advcl
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 dancing	advmod
33	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 keep	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	Mercy	the angel's reply				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus
2	carry	past	the shoes	Mercy	the gate		into the fields; across roads and bridges	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	keep	must	Mercy					tree rules
4	dance	gerund	Mercy not said here			ever		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reply		the angel					nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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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