Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 10
Inge was taken to the house of some rich people, who lived at a distance, and who treated her as their own child, and dressed her so fine that her pride and arrogance increased.
Who acts: house, pride, child · What happens: take, live, treat, dress, increase, pride · To what, where: Inge, house, child
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 (house, pride, child), 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 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 people | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 house | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 house | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 treated | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 treated | nsubj |
| 20 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 treated | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 child | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 child | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | amod |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 treated | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dressed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dressed | cc |
| 28 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 treated | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dressed | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 fine | advmod |
| 31 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dressed | xcomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 increased | mark |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 pride | nmod:poss |
| 34 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 increased | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 arrogance | cc |
| 36 | arrogance | arrogance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pride | conj |
| 37 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 fine | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | Inge | the house of some rich people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the house of some rich people | at a distance | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location | ||||
| 3 | treat | past | child | as people's own child | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme as child=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | dress | past | child | fine property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | increase | participle | child's pride and arrogance | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | pride | child | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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