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title: And she went quickly up to the church-door; but when she came there,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And she went quickly up to the church-door; but when she came there, the red shoes were dancing before her, and she was frightened, and turned back. Who acts: Karen, red shoes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 81

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And she went quickly up to the church-door; but when she came there, the red shoes were dancing before her, and she was frightened, and turned back.

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**Who acts:** Karen, red shoes · **What happens:** go, come, dance, frighten, turn back · **To what, where:** church door, Karen

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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, 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:pg27200:154:81
# text = And she went quickly up to the church-door; but when she came there, the red shoes were dancing before her, and she was frightened, and turned back.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Karen |  |  | the church door |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up door=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | Karen |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | past · progressive | the red shoes |  |  |  | before Karen |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 4 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Karen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **turn back** | past | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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