Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 69
The shoes carried her over stack and stone; she was torn till she bled; she danced over the heath till she came to a little house.
Who acts: shoes, Within · What happens: carry, tear, bleed, dance, come · To what, where: Within, stack, heath, little house
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 (shoes, Within), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shoes | det |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 stack | case |
| 6 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stone | cc |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stack | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 torn | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 torn | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 torn | aux:pass |
| 12 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 bled | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bled | nsubj |
| 15 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 torn | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 danced | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 heath | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 heath | det |
| 21 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 danced | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the shoes | Within | stack and stone | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | Within | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bleed | past | Within | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | Within | the heath | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over heath=Location | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Within | a little house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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