Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 57
She danced and was obliged to go on dancing over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day--but by night it was most horrible.
Who acts: Karen, sunshine · What happens: dance, oblige, go, be · To what, where: rain, dancing
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, sunshine), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 obliged | cc |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 danced | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 dancing | case |
| 9 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 meadow | cc |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 field | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rain | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rain | case |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obliged | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sunshine | cc |
| 18 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rain | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obliged | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 day | cc |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 night | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 horrible | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 horrible | cc |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horrible | obl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 horrible | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 horrible | cop |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 horrible | advmod |
| 32 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 danced | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Karen | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | Karen not said here | rain and sunshine | night | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Karen not said here | dancing | over field and meadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over field=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | sunshine | night | horrible property | tree rules |
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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