Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 41

But just as Karen was lifting up her foot to get in too, the old soldier said: "Dear me, what pretty dancing shoes!" and Karen could not help it, she was obliged to dance a few steps; and when she had once begun, her legs continued to dance.

Who acts: Karen, old soldier, legs · What happens: lift up, get, say, dance, not help, oblige · To what, where: foot, shoes, soldier, Karen, few steps · 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 (Karen, old soldier, legs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 lifting	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 lifting	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 lifting	mark
4	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lifting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifting	aux
6	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 said	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 lifting	compound:prt
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 foot	nmod:poss
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifting	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lifting	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 too	case
13	too	too	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lifting	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soldier	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soldier	amod
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Dear	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Dear	punct
21	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Dear	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dancing	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 dancing	nsubj
25	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	26 dancing	advmod
26	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 Dear	parataxis
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dancing	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 dancing	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 dancing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 help	cc
31	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 help	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 help	advmod
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Dear	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 help	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 obliged	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 obliged	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 obliged	aux:pass
39	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 dance	mark
41	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 obliged	xcomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 steps	det
43	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 steps	amod
44	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 dance	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 begun	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 begun	cc
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 begun	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 begun	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 begun	aux
50	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	51 begun	advmod
51	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 continued	punct
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 legs	nmod:poss
54	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 continued	nsubj
55	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 begun	parataxis
56	to	to	PART	_	57 dance	mark
57	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 continued	xcomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift up	past · progressive	Karen	Karen's foot		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	Karen not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: express	past	the old soldier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dance in a quote	gerund		shoes	pretty property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=Theme
5	not help	could	Karen	soldier		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
6	oblige	past · passive		Karen		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	dance	to-infinitive		a few steps		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
8	begin	past · perfect	Karen		once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	continue	past	Karen's legs			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	dance	to-infinitive	Karen's legs not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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