Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 134
I suppose you know the history of 'the Girl who Trod on the Loaf, so that she might not soil her shoes'?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: suppose, know · To what, where: history · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 suppose | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 history | det |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Girl | case |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Girl | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Girl | det |
| 10 | Girl | Girl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 history | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 Trod | nsubj |
| 12 | Trod | Trod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Girl | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Loaf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Loaf | det |
| 15 | Loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Trod | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 soil | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 22 soil | case |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 soil | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 soil | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 soil | advmod |
| 22 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suppose | obl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 soil | conj |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 shoes | case |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present | I | so soil and woman's shoes | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | the history of the Girl and Trod on the Loaf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus |
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.
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