--- title: When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes would dance to the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes would dance to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced back again, down the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate. Who acts: Karen, shoes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:27:50 # text = When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes would dance to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced back again, down the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 down down ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 out out ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | Karen | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **dance** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | | | the right | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory | | 3 | **dance** | would | the shoes | | | the left | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory | | 4 | **want** | past | Karen | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **dance up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | the room | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme | | 6 | **dance** | past | the shoes | the room *not said here* | | | again | down the steps and the street | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme room=Destination down step=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/51/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/)