Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 18
So Inge put on her best clothes, and her new shoes, drew her dress up around her, and set out, stepping very carefully, that she might be clean and neat about the feet, and there was nothing wrong in doing so.
Who acts: Inge, new shoes, mother, nothing · What happens: put, draw, dress up, set out, step, be · To what, where: best clothes
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, new shoes, mother, nothing), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shoes | amod |
| 12 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shoes | punct |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drew | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 dress | compound:prt |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dress | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepping | punct |
| 25 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 set | conj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 carefully | advmod |
| 27 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 25 stepping | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 clean | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 clean | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 clean | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 clean | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 clean | cop |
| 33 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stepping | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 neat | cc |
| 35 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 clean | conj |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 feet | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 feet | det |
| 38 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 neat | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 was | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 was | cc |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 was | expl |
| 42 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 43 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 42 was | nsubj |
| 44 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 nothing | amod |
| 45 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 46 doing | mark |
| 46 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 wrong | advcl |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 doing | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Inge | mother's best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | mother's new shoes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dress up | infinitive | mother's new shoes not said here | around mother | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | Inge not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | step | gerund | Inge not said here | carefully property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | might | mother | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | mother not said here | about the feet | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | do | gerund | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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