Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 25

Everybody looked at her feet, and the whole of the way from the church door to the choir it seemed to her as if even the ancient figures on the monuments, in their stiff collars and long black robes, had their eyes fixed on her red shoes.

Who acts: Everybody, it · What happens: look, seem, have, fix · To what, where: Karen, eyes, red shoes

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 (Everybody, it), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whole	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whole	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whole	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whole	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	compound
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 choir	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 choir	det
19	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seemed	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	29 figures	case
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 figures	mark
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 figures	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 figures	det
28	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 figures	amod
29	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seemed	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 monuments	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 monuments	det
32	monuments	monument	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 figures	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 collars	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 collars	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 collars	nmod:poss
36	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 collars	amod
37	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 monuments	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 robes	cc
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 robes	amod
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 robes	amod
41	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 monuments	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seemed	conj
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 had	obj
46	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 eyes	acl
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 shoes	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 shoes	nmod:poss
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 shoes	amod
50	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 fixed	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Everybody				from the church door; at Karen's feet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme
2	seem	past	it		Karen		to the choir; as the ancient figures on the monuments and shoes's stiff collars and long black robes	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	have	past		shoes's eyes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	fix	participle		shoes's eyes not said here		Karen's red shoes		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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