Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 51

But when she wanted to go to the right, the shoes danced to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced down the room, down the stairs through the street, and out through the gates of the town.

Who acts: Karen, shoes · What happens: want, go, dance, dance up · To what, where: right, left, room, street

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, shoes), 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	_	13 danced	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wanted	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 right	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	nsubj
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 left	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 left	det
16	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 danced	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wanted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wanted	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wanted	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 danced	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dance	mark
23	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wanted	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 dance	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dance	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 danced	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shoes	det
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danced	nsubj
30	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wanted	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	33 room	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 room	det
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 danced	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stairs	punct
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 stairs	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stairs	det
37	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danced	obl
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 street	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 street	det
40	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 danced	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 out	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 out	cc
43	out	out	ADV	_	13 danced	parataxis
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 gates	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 gates	det
46	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 out	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 town	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 town	det
49	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gates	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Karen				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Karen not said here		the right		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to right=Initial_Location
3	dance	past	the shoes		the left		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory
4	want	past	Karen				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	dance up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Karen not said here	the room			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
6	dance	past	the shoes		the street	down the room; down the stairs	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Location

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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