Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 78

And then she confessed her entire sin, and the executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes, but the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep wood.

Who acts: Karen, executioner, shoes · What happens: confess, strike off, dance away · To what, where: entire sin, feet, field

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, executioner, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 confessed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 confessed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 confessed	nsubj
4	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sin	nmod:poss
6	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sin	amod
7	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 struck	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 executioner	det
11	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confessed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 struck	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 shoes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoes	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoes	amod
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 struck	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 danced	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 danced	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shoes	det
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 danced	nsubj
24	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confessed	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 danced	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 feet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feet	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feet	amod
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 danced	obl
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 field	det
32	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danced	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 wood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wood	amod
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danced	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	Karen	Karen's entire sin		then		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic
2	strike off	past	the executioner	Karen's feet			with the red shoes	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with shoe=Instrument
3	dance away	past	the shoes		the field		with the little feet; into the deep wood; away property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

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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