Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 16
She did not turn back out of pity for her mother's poverty, but from pride.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not turn back · To what, where: pity
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 turn | advmod |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pity | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pity | case |
| 8 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 poverty | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pride | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 pride | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 pride | case |
| 17 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn back | past · do-support | mother | pity | for mother's mother's poverty | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent out pity=Source |
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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