Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 69
She danced, and was obliged to go on dancing through the dark night.
Who acts: Mercy · What happens: dance, oblige, go
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), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 obliged | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 danced | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 dancing | case |
| 10 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dancing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Mercy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | Mercy not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Mercy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | night | 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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