Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 17
Another half-year went by, and her mistress said, "you ought to go home again, and visit your parents, Inge, and I will give you a large wheaten loaf to take to them, they will be glad to see you, I am sure."
Who acts: mistress, you, parents · What happens: go by, say, go, visit, give, take · To what, where: parents, large wheaten loaf, you · 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 (mistress, you, parents), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 year | det |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 year | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 half | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 visit | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 visit | cc |
| 22 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 visit | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Inge | punct |
| 26 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 parents | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 give | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 give | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 give | aux |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 visit | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 loaf | det |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 loaf | amod |
| 35 | wheaten | wheaten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 loaf | amod |
| 36 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 give | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 take | mark |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 loaf | acl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 glad | punct |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 glad | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 glad | aux |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 glad | cop |
| 45 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 give | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 see | mark |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 glad | xcomp |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 see | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 sure | punct |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 sure | nsubj |
| 51 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 sure | cop |
| 52 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | parataxis |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother's mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | ought | you | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | visit in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your parents | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | mother's mistress = mistress | a large wheaten loaf | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient loaf=Theme | |||
| 6 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | mother's mistress = mistress not said here | a large wheaten loaf not said here | parents = parent | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | future | parents = parent | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | mother's mistress = mistress | sure 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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