Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 82

And she hastened towards the church door: but when she was near it, the red shoes danced before her, and she was terrified, and turned round.

Who acts: Karen, red shoes · What happens: hasten, be, dance, turn round · To what, where: church door, door

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, red 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	_	3 hastened	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hastened	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 it	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 it	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 it	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 it	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	cop
13	near	near	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 danced	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoes	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 danced	nsubj
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 it	acl:relcl
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 danced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 terrified	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 terrified	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 terrified	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 terrified	cop
26	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 danced	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 turned	cc
29	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 terrified	conj
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 turned	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	Karen	the church door			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards door=Destination
2	is	past	Karen	door			tree rules
3	dance	past	the red shoes		before Karen		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location
4	is	past	Karen			terrified property	tree rules
5	turn round	past	Karen not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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