Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 91

You know she always dances when she hears music and singing of any sort; so she began to dance immediately, although she ought not to have done so, but she could not get into the right time because the tune was so slow; so she stood first on one leg and then on the other, and bent her head very low, but it would not suit the music.

Who acts: You, sister, tune · What happens: know, dance, hear, sing, begin, not do · To what, where: music, one leg, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sister, tune), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dances	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 dances	advmod
5	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	ccomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hears	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hears	nsubj
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dances	advcl
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 singing	cc
11	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 music	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sort	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 singing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 began	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 dance	mark
20	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 dance	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 done	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 done	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
25	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 done	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 done	mark
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	aux
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 dance	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 get	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 get	advmod
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 done	advcl
37	into	into	ADP	_	40 time	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 time	det
39	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 time	amod
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl
41	because	because	SCONJ	_	46 slow	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tune	det
43	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 slow	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 slow	cop
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 slow	advmod
46	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 get	advcl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 stood	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	50 stood	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 stood	nsubj
50	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
51	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	50 stood	advmod
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 leg	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 leg	nummod
54	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 stood	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 other	cc
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 other	advmod
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 other	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 other	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 stood	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 bent	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 bent	cc
62	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 stood	conj
63	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 head	nmod:poss
64	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 bent	obj
65	very	very	ADV	_	66 low	advmod
66	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 bent	advcl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 suit	punct
68	but	but	CCONJ	_	72 suit	cc
69	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 suit	nsubj
70	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 suit	aux
71	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	72 suit	advmod
72	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 music	det
74	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 suit	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dance	present	sister				always property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	present	sister	music				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
4	sing speech: express	gerund	sister not said here				of any sort	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	sister					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive	sister not said here				immediately property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not do	ought · perfect	sister					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not get	could	sister			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past	the tune				slow property	tree rules
10	stand	past	sister		one leg		first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
11	bend	past	sister not said here	sister's head				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
12	not suit	would	tune	the music				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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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