Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 44
He lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so that she kicked the good old lady violently.
Who acts: coachman, feet, Karen · What happens: lift, continue, dance, kick · To what, where: Karen, carriage, good old lady
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 (coachman, feet, Karen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carriage | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 continued | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dance | mark |
| 13 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continued | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kicked | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 kicked | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kicked | nsubj |
| 18 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 continued | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lady | amod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lady | amod |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kicked | obj |
| 23 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 18 kicked | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | coachman | Karen | the carriage | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into carriage=Destination | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Karen's feet | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | Karen's feet not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kick | past | Karen | the good old lady | violently property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lady=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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