Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 54

But it was the old soldier with the red beard; he sat there nodding his head and said: "Dear me, what pretty dancing shoes!"

Who acts: wood, old soldier · What happens: be, sit, nod, say, dance · To what, where: old soldier, head, shoes · 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 (wood, old soldier), 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 soldier	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soldier	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soldier	amod
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 beard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beard	det
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beard	amod
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soldier	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
15	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nodding	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Dear	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Dear	punct
22	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Dear	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dancing	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 dancing	nsubj
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 dancing	advmod
27	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 Dear	conj
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dancing	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wood	the old soldier		with the red beard	tree rules
2	sit	past	the old soldier		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nod	gerund	the old soldier not said here	sin's head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	say speech: express	past	the old soldier not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	dance in a quote	gerund		shoes		pretty property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=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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