Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 36
Sit fast, when you dance," said he, addressing the shoes, and slapping the soles with his hand.
Who acts: you, instep · What happens: sit, dance, say, address, slap · To what, where: shoes, soles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dance | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 dance | nsubj |
| 6 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 addressing | punct |
| 12 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 addressing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slapping | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slapping | cc |
| 17 | slapping | slap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 addressing | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soles | det |
| 19 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slapping | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slapping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dance | present | you | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | instep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | address in a quote | gerund | instep not said here | the shoes | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Destination | ||||
| 5 | slap in a quote | gerund | instep not said here | the soles | with instep's hand | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sole=Patient with hand=Instrument |
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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