Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 79
And he carved her a pair of wooden feet and some crutches, and taught her a psalm which is always sung by sinners; she kissed the hand that guided the axe, and went away over the heath.
Who acts: executioner, sinners, Karen, hand · What happens: carve, teach, sing, kiss, guide, go away · To what, where: pair, Karen, psalm, hand, axe, 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 (executioner, sinners, Karen, hand), 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 | _ | 3 carved | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | nsubj |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carved | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crutches | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 crutches | det |
| 12 | crutches | crutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taught | cc |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taught | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 psalm | det |
| 18 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taught | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sung | aux:pass |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 sung | advmod |
| 22 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 psalm | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 sinners | case |
| 24 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sung | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 kissed | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kissed | nsubj |
| 27 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hand | det |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kissed | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 guided | nsubj |
| 31 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hand | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 axe | det |
| 33 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 guided | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kissed | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 heath | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 heath | det |
| 40 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | executioner | a pair of wooden feet and some crutches | Karen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary pair=Product | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | executioner not said here | a psalm | Karen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient psalm=Topic | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present · passive | sinners | a psalm | always property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | Karen | the hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | guide | past | the hand | the axe | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go away | past | Karen not said here | the heath | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over heath=Initial_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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