Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 84
And so she went boldly on; but she had not got farther than the churchyard gate when she saw the red shoes dancing along before her.
Who acts: Karen, red shoes · What happens: go, not get, see, dance · To what, where: red shoes
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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 got | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 13 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 got | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 gate | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 16 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gate | compound |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 farther | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shoes | det |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shoes | amod |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 shoes | acl |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 dancing | advmod |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dancing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Karen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not get | past · perfect | Karen | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Karen | the red shoes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | the red shoes not said here | before Karen | along property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=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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