Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 78

And then she confessed all her sin, and the executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes; but the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep forest.

Who acts: Karen, executioner, shoes · What happens: confess, strike off, dance away · To what, where: sin, feet, field

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, executioner, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 confessed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 confessed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 confessed	nsubj
4	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sin	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sin	nmod:poss
7	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 struck	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 executioner	det
11	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confessed	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 struck	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 shoes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoes	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoes	amod
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 struck	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 danced	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 danced	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shoes	det
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 danced	nsubj
24	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 confessed	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 danced	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 feet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 feet	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feet	amod
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 danced	obl
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 field	det
32	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danced	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 forest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 forest	det
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 forest	amod
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danced	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	Karen	Karen's sin		then		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic
2	strike off	past	the executioner	Karen's feet			with the red shoes	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with shoe=Instrument
3	dance away	past	the shoes		the field		with the little feet; into the deep forest; away property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

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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