Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 33

At the church door stood an old crippled soldier leaning on a crutch; he had a wonderfully long beard, more red than white, and he bowed down to the ground and asked the old lady whether he might wipe her shoes.

Who acts: old crippled soldier, instep · What happens: stand, lean, have, bow down, ask, wipe · To what, where: old crippled soldier, church door, crutch, long beard, old lady, 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 (old crippled soldier, instep), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldier	amod
8	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldier	amod
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obj
10	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 soldier	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 crutch	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 crutch	det
13	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaning	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beard	det
18	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beard	amod
20	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 red	amod
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 white	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 red	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bowed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bowed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bowed	nsubj
29	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 bowed	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bowed	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 asked	cc
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 lady	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lady	amod
38	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	iobj
39	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	42 wipe	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wipe	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 wipe	aux
42	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 asked	xcomp
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoes	nmod:poss
44	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 wipe	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a old crippled soldier		the church door		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme at door=Destination
2	lean	gerund	a old crippled soldier not said here			a crutch		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crutch=Location
3	have	past	instep	a long beard				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
4	bow down	past	instep				to the ground; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past			the old lady			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic
6	wipe not said to happen	might	instep	lady's shoes				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=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: «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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