Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 94
Here she sat down with her hymn-book, and as she was reading it with a pious mind, the wind carried the notes of the organ over to her from the church, and in tears she lifted up her face and said: "O God! help me!"
Who acts: Karen, wind, God · What happens: sit down, read, carry, lift up, say, help · To what, where: book, notes, Karen, church, face, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
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, wind, God), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 book | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hymn | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reading | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reading | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 reading | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reading | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reading | aux |
| 15 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reading | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mind | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mind | det |
| 19 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mind | amod |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reading | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | nsubj |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 notes | det |
| 26 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carried | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 organ | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 organ | det |
| 29 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 notes | nmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carried | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 church | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 church | det |
| 35 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lifted | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 lifted | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 tears | case |
| 39 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lifted | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lifted | nsubj |
| 41 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 lifted | compound:prt |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 face | nmod:poss |
| 44 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lifted | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 said | cc |
| 46 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lifted | conj |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 52 help | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 help | punct |
| 49 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 50 God | discourse |
| 50 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 help | nsubj |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 50 God | punct |
| 52 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 said | ccomp |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 help | obj |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 52 help | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Karen | here | with Karen's hymn book | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | read | past · progressive | Karen | book | with a pious mind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | carry | past | the wind | the notes of the organ | Karen | the church | over property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme to she=Destination from church=Initial_Location | |
| 4 | lift up | past | Karen | Karen's face | tears | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in tear=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | Karen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help in a quote | infinitive | God | Karen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | note | the organ | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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