Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 103
Her soul flew on the sunbeams to Heaven, and no one was there who asked after the Red Shoes.
Who acts: soul, one · What happens: fly, be, ask · To what, where: sunbeams
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (soul, one), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 soul | nmod:poss |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sunbeams | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunbeams | det |
| 6 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Heaven | case |
| 8 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sunbeams | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 Shoes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Shoes | det |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Shoes | compound |
| 20 | Shoes | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Karen's soul | the sunbeams to Heaven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sunbeam=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no one not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | no one | after the Red Shoes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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