Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 31
She could move her eyes about, and see all the misery around her, but she could not turn her head; and when she saw the people looking at her she thought they were admiring her pretty face and fine clothes, for she was still vain and proud.
Who acts: punishment, people · What happens: move, see, not turn, look, think, admire · To what, where: eyes, misery, head, pretty face · 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 (punishment, people), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 move | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 move | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 move | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 move | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 misery | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 misery | det |
| 12 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 turn | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turn | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 turn | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 turn | advmod |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 move | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 saw | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 saw | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 people | acl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 looking | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 saw | advcl |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 admiring | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 admiring | aux |
| 37 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 face | nmod:poss |
| 39 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 face | amod |
| 40 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 admiring | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 clothes | cc |
| 42 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 clothes | amod |
| 43 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 40 face | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 vain | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 vain | mark |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 vain | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 vain | cop |
| 48 | still | still | ADV | _ | 49 vain | advmod |
| 49 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 proud | cc |
| 51 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 vain | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | could | punishment | punishment's eyes | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | punishment not said here | all misery | around punishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misery=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not turn | could | punishment | punishment's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | punishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the people not said here | at punishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | admire | past · progressive | people | punishment's pretty face and fine clothes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | is | past | punishment | still | vain property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | be | punishment not said here | tree rules |
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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