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title: And she danced, and must dance, over fields and meadows, in rain and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she danced, and must dance, over fields and meadows, in rain and sunshine, by night and day; but at night it was the most fearful. Who acts: Karen, sunshine. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 54

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And she danced, and must dance, over fields and meadows, in rain and sunshine, by night and day; but at night it was the most fearful.

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**Who acts:** Karen, sunshine · **What happens:** dance, be · **To what, where:** fields

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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, sunshine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:27:54
# text = And she danced, and must dance, over fields and meadows, in rain and sunshine, by night and day; but at night it was the most fearful.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dance** | must | Karen *not said here* |  |  | fields and meadows | night | in rain and sunshine | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | sunshine |  |  |  | night | fearful *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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