Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 70
The shoes bore her away over thorns and stumps till she was all torn and bleeding; she danced away over the heath to a lonely little house.
Who acts: shoes, Mercy · What happens: bear away, tear, bleed, dance away · To what, where: Mercy, thorns, heath
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shoes | det |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bore | nsubj |
| 3 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bore | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 bore | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 thorns | case |
| 7 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bore | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stumps | cc |
| 9 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thorns | conj |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 torn | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 torn | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 torn | aux:pass |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 torn | advmod |
| 14 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bore | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bleeding | cc |
| 16 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 torn | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 danced | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 danced | nsubj |
| 19 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bore | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 danced | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 heath | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heath | det |
| 23 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 danced | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 26 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 danced | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear away | past | the shoes | Mercy | thorns and stumps | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | Mercy | all property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bleed | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | dance away | past | Mercy | the heath | to a lonely little house; away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over heath=Location |
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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