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title: And away she went boldly; but she had not got farther than the churc… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And away she went boldly; but she had not got farther than the churchyard gate before she saw the red shoes dancing before her; and she was frightened, and turned back, and repented of her sin from her heart. Who acts: Karen, red shoes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The R
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 85

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And away she went boldly; but she had not got farther than the churchyard gate before she saw the red shoes dancing before her; and she was frightened, and turned back, and repented of her sin from her heart.

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**Who acts:** Karen, red shoes · **What happens:** go, not get, see, dance, frighten, turn back · **To what, where:** red shoes, Karen, heart

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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, red shoes), 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:pg1597:27:85
# text = And away she went boldly; but she had not got farther than the churchyard gate before she saw the red shoes dancing before her; and she was frightened, and turned back, and repented of her sin from her heart.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
12	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  | away, boldly *property* | 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 |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 5 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Karen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **turn back** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **repent** | past |  |  |  | Karen's heart |  | of Karen's sin | 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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