Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 33

Worse than all was the terrible hunger that tormented her, and she could not stoop to break off a piece of the loaf on which she stood.

Who acts: all, terrible hunger, punishment · What happens: be, torment, not stoop, break off, stand · To what, where: punishment, piece, loaf

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 (all, terrible hunger, punishment), 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	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	7 hunger	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hunger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunger	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunger	det
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hunger	amod
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Worse	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tormented	nsubj
9	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunger	acl:relcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tormented	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stoop	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stoop	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stoop	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stoop	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stoop	advmod
16	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tormented	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 break	mark
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stoop	xcomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 break	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 piece	det
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 break	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 loaf	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 loaf	det
24	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 loaf	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all			than the terrible hunger	tree rules
2	torment	past	the terrible hunger	punishment			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	not stoop	could	punishment				tree rules
4	break off	to-infinitive	punishment not said here	a piece of the loaf			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Patient
5	stand	past	punishment		the loaf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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