Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 66

But she did not hear what the angel answered, for the shoes carried her through the gate into the fields, along highways and byways, and unceasingly she had to dance.

Who acts: Mercy, angel, shoes · What happens: not hear, answer, carry, have, dance · To what, where: Mercy, gate · 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 (Mercy, angel, 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	_	5 hear	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 answered	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 angel	det
8	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carried	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 carried	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoes	det
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	nsubj
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gate	det
18	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 fields	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fields	det
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 highways	punct
23	along	along	ADP	_	24 highways	case
24	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carried	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 byways	cc
26	byways	byway	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 highways	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
29	unceasingly	unceasingly	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 dance	mark
33	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	Mercy				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past	the angel				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	carry	past	the shoes	Mercy	the gate	into the fields	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	have	past	Mercy			unceasingly property	tree rules
5	dance	to-infinitive	Mercy not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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