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title: He lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so that she kicked the good old lady violently. Who acts: coachman, feet, Karen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 44

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He lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so that she kicked the good old lady violently.

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**Who acts:** coachman, feet, Karen · **What happens:** lift, continue, dance, kick · **To what, where:** Karen, carriage, good old lady

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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 (coachman, feet, Karen), 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:pg27200:154:44
# text = He lifted her into the carriage, but her feet continued to dance, so that she kicked the good old lady violently.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | coachman | Karen |  | the carriage |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into carriage=Destination |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Karen's feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive | Karen's feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **kick** | past | Karen | the good old lady |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lady=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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