Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 43
She danced round the church corner, for she could not stop; the coachman had to run after her and seize her.
Who acts: Karen, coachman · What happens: dance, not stop, have, run, seize · To what, where: church corner, Karen
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, coachman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | compound |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stop | advmod |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 danced | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coachman | det |
| 15 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | xcomp |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 run | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seize | cc |
| 22 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 run | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seize | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Karen | the church corner | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not stop | could | Karen | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the coachman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | the coachman not said here | after Karen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seize | infinitive | the coachman not said here | Karen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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