--- title: Here she sat down with her hymn-book, and as she was reading it with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Here she sat down with her hymn-book, and as she was reading it with a pious mind, the wind carried the notes of the organ over to her from the church, and in tears she lifted up her face and said: "O God! help me!" Who acts: Karen, wind, God. 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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, wind, God), 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:pg27200:154:94 # text = Here she sat down with her hymn-book, and as she was reading it with a pious mind, the wind carried the notes of the organ over to her from the church, and in tears she lifted up her face and said: "O God! help me!" 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hymn hymn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 pious pious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 O o INTJ UH _ 50 discourse _ _ 50 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ _ 52 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 ccomp _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | Karen | | | here | | with Karen's hymn book | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **read** | past · progressive | Karen | book | | | | with a pious mind | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **carry** | past | the wind | the notes of the organ | Karen | the church | | over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme to she=Destination from church=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **lift up** | past | Karen | Karen's face | | tears | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in tear=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Karen *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | | Karen | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 7 | **note** | | | the organ | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/95/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/)