Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 67

One morning she danced past a door that she knew well; they were singing a psalm inside, and a coffin was being carried out covered with flowers.

Who acts: Mercy, shoes · What happens: dance, know, sing, carry out, cover · To what, where: door, psalm, coffin

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, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 danced	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 danced	nsubj
4	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 danced	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 danced	advcl
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 knew	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 singing	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 singing	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 singing	aux
15	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 danced	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 psalm	det
17	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 singing	obj
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	15 singing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carried	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coffin	det
22	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 carried	aux:pass
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 carried	aux:pass
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 danced	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 carried	compound:prt
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 carried	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	Mercy		a door	morning		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme past door=Trajectory
2	know	past	Mercy				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	past · progressive	shoes = shoe	a psalm			inside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme
4	carry out	past · passive		a coffin				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	cover	participle					with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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