Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 79
And he carved out little wooden feet for her, and crutches, taught her the psalm criminals always sing; and she kissed the hand which had wielded the axe, and went over the heath.
Who acts: executioner, crutches, psalm criminals, Karen · What happens: carve out, teach, sing, kiss, wield, go · To what, where: little wooden feet, psalm criminals, Karen, hand, heath
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 (executioner, crutches, psalm criminals, Karen), 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 | _ | 3 carved | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | nsubj |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 carved | compound:prt |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feet | amod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carved | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taught | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taught | cc |
| 12 | crutches | crutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taught | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crutches | punct |
| 14 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 taught | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 criminals | det |
| 17 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 criminals | compound |
| 18 | criminals | criminal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taught | obj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 sing | advmod |
| 20 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 criminals | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 kissed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kissed | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissed | nsubj |
| 24 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hand | det |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kissed | obj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 wielded | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wielded | aux |
| 29 | wielded | wield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hand | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 axe | det |
| 31 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wielded | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 kissed | conj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 heath | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heath | det |
| 37 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve out | past | executioner | little wooden feet | for Karen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foot=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | crutches | the psalm criminals | Karen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient criminal=Topic | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the psalm criminals not said here | always property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Karen | the hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | wield | past · perfect · passive | the hand | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | past | Karen not said here | the heath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over heath=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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