Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 90

The following Sunday, when the family was going to church, they asked her whether she would not go with them; but she glanced sorrowfully, with tears in her eyes, at her crutches.

Who acts: family, wives · What happens: follow, go, ask, not go, glance · To what, where: church, family · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (family, wives), 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	3 Sunday	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Sunday	amod
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 going	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 Sunday	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 church	case
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sunday	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	iobj
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 go	advmod
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 glanced	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 glanced	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 glanced	nsubj
26	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	conj
27	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	26 glanced	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tears	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 tears	case
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 glanced	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tears	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crutches	punct
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 crutches	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 crutches	nmod:poss
37	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 glanced	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	the family		church			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	wives = wife	family		sunday		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not go	would	family				with wives = wife	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	glance	past	family				with tears in Karen's eyes; at Karen's crutches; sorrowfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crutch=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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