Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 29
An evil spirit soon took possession of Inge, and carried her to a still worse place, in which she saw crowds of unhappy people, waiting in a state of agony for the gates of mercy to be opened to them, and in every heart was a miserable and eternal feeling of unrest.
Who acts: evil spirit, spirit · What happens: take, carry, see, wait, open, be · To what, where: possession, spirit, worse place, crowds, state, gates
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 (evil spirit, spirit), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 took | advmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Inge | case |
| 8 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 possession | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 worse | advmod |
| 16 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saw | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | conj |
| 23 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 25 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 crowds | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 waiting | punct |
| 28 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 saw | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 state | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 state | det |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 waiting | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 agony | case |
| 33 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 state | nmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 gates | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gates | det |
| 36 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 waiting | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mercy | case |
| 38 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gates | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 opened | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 opened | aux:pass |
| 41 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 mercy | acl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 opened | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 feeling | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 feeling | cc |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 heart | case |
| 47 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 heart | det |
| 48 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 feeling | obl |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 feeling | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 feeling | det |
| 51 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 feeling | amod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 eternal | cc |
| 53 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 miserable | conj |
| 54 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 unrest | case |
| 56 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 feeling | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a evil spirit | possession of Inge | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | a evil spirit not said here | spirit | a worse place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | spirit | crowds of unhappy people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | a state of agony | for the gates of mercy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location | ||||
| 5 | open | to-infinitive · passive | gates = gate | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to they=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | a miserable feeling | every heart | of unrest | tree rules | |||
| 7 | possess | Inge | nom possession «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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