Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 28
Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her down as a golden ear of corn bends the stem.
Who acts: loaf, golden ear · What happens: fasten, bow down, bend · To what, where: foot, woman, stem
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 (loaf, golden ear), 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 foot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fastened | aux:pass |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 fastened | advmod |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 loaf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loaf | det |
| 8 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loaf | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bowed | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 bowed | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 bends | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ear | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ear | amod |
| 17 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bends | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ear | nmod |
| 20 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bowed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stem | det |
| 22 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bends | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | woman's foot | still | to the loaf | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to loaf=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | bow down | past | the loaf | woman | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | a golden ear of corn | the stem | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stem=Material |
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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