Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 12

So Inge started to go and visit her parents; but she only wanted to show herself in her native place, that the people might see how fine she was.

Who acts: Inge, child, people · What happens: start, go, visit, want, show, see · To what, where: parents, child · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Inge, child, people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 started	advmod
2	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 started	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 visit	cc
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 visit	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 wanted	advmod
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 show	mark
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 show	iobj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 place	nmod:poss
20	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 show	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 see	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 show	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fine	advmod
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	ccomp
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fine	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fine	cop
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	start	past	Inge				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	Inge not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	infinitive	Inge not said here	child's parents			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent
4	want	past	child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here		child	in child's native place	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in place=Topic
6	see	might	the people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	child			fine property	tree rules

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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