Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 81

And she went quickly up to the church-door; but when she came there, the red shoes were dancing before her, and she was frightened, and turned back.

Who acts: Karen, red shoes · What happens: go, come, dance, frighten, turn back · To what, where: church door, Karen

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, red 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	_	3 went	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	10 door	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 church	punct
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 turned	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 turned	advcl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dancing	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoes	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shoes	amod
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dancing	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dancing	aux
22	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dancing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 frightened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 frightened	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 frightened	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 frightened	aux:pass
29	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turned	cc
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 turned	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Karen		the church door		quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up door=Initial_Location
2	come	past	Karen		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	past · progressive	the red shoes			before Karen		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location
4	frighten	past · passive		Karen				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	turn back	past	Karen not said here					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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