Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 15
Then Inge turned back; she who was so finely dressed she felt ashamed of her mother, a poorly clad woman, who picked up wood in the forest.
Who acts: Inge, mother, clad woman · What happens: turn back, dress, feel, pick up · To what, where: mother, wood, forest
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, mother, clad woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dressed | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dressed | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dressed | aux:pass |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 dressed | advmod |
| 10 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 11 dressed | advmod |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dressed | ccomp |
| 14 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ashamed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 woman | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 21 clad | advmod |
| 21 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 picked | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 picked | nsubj |
| 25 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 woman | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 picked | compound:prt |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picked | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forest | det |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picked | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | Inge | then | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | mother | finely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | mother | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pick up | past | a clad woman | wood | the forest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic |
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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