Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 1

There was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soiling her shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to her in consequence are well known.

Who acts: girl, misfortunes · What happens: be, tread, avoid, soil, happen, know · To what, where: loaf, shoes, girl, consequence, misfortunes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, misfortunes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 trod	nsubj
7	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 loaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loaf	det
10	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trod	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 avoid	mark
12	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trod	advcl
13	soiling	soil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 avoid	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoes	nmod:poss
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 soiling	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 known	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 misfortunes	det
19	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 known	nsubj:pass
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 happened	nsubj
21	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 misfortunes	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 happened	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 consequence	case
25	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happened	obl
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux:pass
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 known	advmod
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a girl			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tread	past	a girl			a loaf		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loaf=Trajectory
3	avoid	to-infinitive	a girl not said here					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	soil	gerund	a girl not said here	girl's shoes				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Destination
5	happen	past	the misfortunes		girl	consequence		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in consequence=Location
6	know	present · passive		the misfortunes			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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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