Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 55

She was frightened, and wanted to throw the red shoes away; but they stuck fast.

Who acts: shoes · What happens: frighten, want, throw, stick · To what, where: 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 throw	mark
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoes	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoes	amod
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 away	obl:unmarked
12	away	away	ADV	_	8 throw	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	nsubj
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 stuck	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Karen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	want	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	stick	past	shoes = shoe		fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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