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title: She danced and was obliged to go on dancing over field and meadow, i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She danced and was obliged to go on dancing over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day--but by night it was most horrible. Who acts: Karen, sunshine. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 57

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She danced and was obliged to go on dancing over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day--but by night it was most horrible.

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**Who acts:** Karen, sunshine · **What happens:** dance, oblige, go, be · **To what, where:** rain, dancing

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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 (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:pg27200:154:57
# text = She danced and was obliged to go on dancing over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day--but by night it was most horrible.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive | Karen *not said here* |  |  | rain and sunshine | night |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* |  |  | dancing |  | over field and meadow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over field=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | sunshine |  |  |  | night | horrible *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:** «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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