Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 30
It would take too much time to describe the various tortures these people suffered, but Inge's punishment consisted in standing there as a statue, with her foot fastened to the loaf.
Who acts: It, people, punishment, foot, Inge · What happens: take, describe, suffer, consist, stand, fasten · To what, where: various tortures
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 (It, people, punishment, foot), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 describe | mark |
| 8 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tortures | det |
| 10 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tortures | amod |
| 11 | tortures | torture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 describe | obj |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 suffered | nsubj |
| 14 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tortures | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 consisted | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 consisted | cc |
| 17 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Inge | case |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consisted | nsubj |
| 20 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 standing | mark |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 consisted | advcl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 standing | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 statue | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 statue | det |
| 26 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 standing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fastened | punct |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 31 fastened | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 foot | nmod:poss |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fastened | nsubj |
| 31 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 consisted | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 loaf | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 loaf | det |
| 34 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fastened | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | the various tortures | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent torture=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past | this people | the various tortures not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | consist | past | Inge's punishment | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | Inge's punishment not said here | there | as a statue | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | fasten | past | punishment's foot | to the loaf | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to loaf=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | punish | Inge | nom punishment «act 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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