Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 27
A heap of mud is a palace compared with the Marsh Woman's brewery; and as Inge fell she shuddered in every limb, and soon became cold and stiff as marble.
Who acts: heap, Inge · What happens: be, compare, fall, shudder, become · To what, where: palace, woman, limb
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 (heap, Inge), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 heap | det |
| 2 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mud | case |
| 4 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heap | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brewery | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woman | det |
| 11 | Marsh | Marsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woman | compound |
| 12 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brewery | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Woman | case |
| 14 | brewery | brewery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 compared | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 shuddered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shuddered | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 18 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shuddered | advcl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | obj |
| 21 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 limb | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 limb | det |
| 24 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shuddered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 became | advmod |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shuddered | conj |
| 29 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stiff | cc |
| 31 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cold | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 marble | case |
| 33 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a heap of mud | a palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | participle | a palace not said here | with the Marsh Woman's brewery | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with brewery=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Inge | woman | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result | ||||
| 4 | shudder | participle | a heap of mud not said here | every limb | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | become | past | a heap of mud not said here | as marble; cold, soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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