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title: Everybody looked at her feet, and the whole of the way from the chur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody looked at her feet, and the whole of the way from the church door to the choir it seemed to her as if even the ancient figures on the monuments, in their stiff collars and long black robes, had their eyes fixed on her red shoes. Who acts: Everybody, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 25

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Everybody looked at her feet, and the whole of the way from the church door to the choir it seemed to her as if even the ancient figures on the monuments, in their stiff collars and long black robes, had their eyes fixed on her red shoes.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, it · **What happens:** look, seem, have, fix · **To what, where:** Karen, eyes, red shoes

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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 (Everybody, it), 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:pg27200:154:25
# text = Everybody looked at her feet, and the whole of the way from the church door to the choir it seemed to her as if even the ancient figures on the monuments, in their stiff collars and long black robes, had their eyes fixed on her red shoes.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	collars	collar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Everybody |  |  |  |  | from the church door; at Karen's feet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | Karen |  |  | to the choir; as the ancient figures on the monuments and shoes's stiff collars and long black robes | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | shoes's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **fix** | participle |  | shoes's eyes *not said here* |  | Karen's red shoes |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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