--- title: But when she wanted to go to the right, the shoes danced to the left… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But when she wanted to go to the right, the shoes danced to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced down the room, down the stairs through the street, and out through the gates of the town. Who acts: Karen, shoes. 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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, 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:pg27200:154:51 # text = But when she wanted to go to the right, the shoes danced to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced down the room, down the stairs through the street, and out through the gates of the town. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 13 parataxis _ _ 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 21 conj _ _ 31 down down ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 down down ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 13 parataxis _ _ 44 through through ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* | | | the right | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to right=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **dance** | past | 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 street | | down the room; down the stairs | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/52/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/)