Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 19

But when she came to the place where the footpath led across the moor, she found small pools of water, and a great deal of mud, so she threw the loaf into the mud, and trod upon it, that she might pass without wetting her feet.

Who acts: mother, footpath · What happens: come, lead, find, throw, tread, pass · To what, where: place, moor, small pools, loaf, mud, feet

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, footpath), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 led	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 footpath	det
10	footpath	footpath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	nsubj
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 place	acl:relcl
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 moor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moor	det
14	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pools	amod
19	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 found	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pools	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deal	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 deal	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 deal	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 deal	amod
26	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 mud	case
28	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deal	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 threw	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 loaf	det
34	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 mud	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mud	det
37	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 trod	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 trod	cc
40	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	parataxis
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 trod	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 pass	punct
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 pass	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 pass	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 pass	aux
47	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 trod	conj
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 wetting	mark
49	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 pass	advcl
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 feet	nmod:poss
51	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 wetting	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	mother		the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	lead	past	the footpath		the moor		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent across moor=Destination
3	find	past	mother	small pools of water		a great deal of mud obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic
4	throw	past	mother	the loaf		into the mud result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer loaf=Theme into mud=Result
5	tread	past			loaf		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
6	pass	might	mother				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wet	gerund	mother not said here	mother's feet			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
8	deal			mud			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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