Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 85
And away she went boldly; but she had not got farther than the churchyard gate before she saw the red shoes dancing before her; and she was frightened, and turned back, and repented of her sin from her heart.
Who acts: Karen, red shoes · What happens: go, not get, see, dance, frighten, turn back · To what, where: red shoes, Karen, heart
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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 got | advmod |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 12 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 got | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farther | obl |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shoes | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shoes | amod |
| 22 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 shoes | acl |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dancing | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 frightened | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 frightened | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 frightened | aux:pass |
| 30 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 frightened | conj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 turned | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 repented | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 repented | cc |
| 37 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sin | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sin | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 repented | obl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 heart | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 heart | nmod:poss |
| 43 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 repented | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Karen | away, boldly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get | past · perfect | Karen | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Karen | the red shoes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | the red shoes not said here | before Karen | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | ||||
| 5 | frighten | past · passive | Karen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | turn back | past | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | repent | past | Karen's heart | of Karen's sin | tree rules |
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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