Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 20

But as she stood with one foot on the loaf and the other lifted up to step forward, the loaf began to sink under her, lower and lower, till she disappeared altogether, and only a few bubbles on the surface of the muddy pool remained to show where she had sunk.

Who acts: mother, other, loaf, few bubbles · What happens: stand, lift up, step forward, begin, sink, disappear · To what, where: loaf · 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 (mother, other, loaf, few bubbles), 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	_	4 stood	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 foot	nummod
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 loaf	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 loaf	det
10	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lifted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lifted	nsubj
14	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 lifted	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 step	mark
17	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lifted	advcl
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 step	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 loaf	det
21	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sink	mark
24	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	under	under	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sink	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lower	punct
28	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 sink	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lower	cc
30	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 lower	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disappeared	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 disappeared	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 disappeared	nsubj
34	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 began	advcl
35	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	34 disappeared	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 remained	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 remained	cc
38	only	only	ADV	_	41 bubbles	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bubbles	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bubbles	amod
41	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 remained	nsubj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 surface	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 surface	det
44	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bubbles	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 pool	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 pool	det
47	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pool	amod
48	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 surface	nmod
49	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 show	mark
51	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 remained	xcomp
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	55 sunk	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sunk	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 sunk	aux
55	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 show	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	mother	the loaf	with one foot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on loaf=Location
2	lift up	participle	the other			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	step forward	to-infinitive	the other not said here		forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the loaf			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sink	to-infinitive	the loaf not said here		under mother	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	disappear	past	mother		altogether property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	remain	past	a few bubbles on the surface of the muddy pool			tree rules
8	show	to-infinitive	a few bubbles on the surface of the muddy pool not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	sink	past · perfect	mother			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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