Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 2
Her name was Inge; she was a poor child, but proud and presuming, and with a bad and cruel disposition.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, presume, name · To what, where: Inge, poor child
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 (girl), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Inge | cop |
| 4 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 child | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 child | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proud | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 proud | cc |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 presuming | cc |
| 15 | presuming | presume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 proud | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disposition | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 disposition | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 disposition | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 disposition | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 disposition | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cruel | cc |
| 22 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bad | conj |
| 23 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proud | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Inge | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | girl | a poor child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | presume | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | name | girl | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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