Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 34
No; her back was too stiff, and her whole body like a pillar of stone.
Who acts: back · What happens: be
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 (back), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 stiff | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 stiff | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stiff | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stiff | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 stiff | advmod |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 body | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 body | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stiff | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 pillar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pillar | det |
| 15 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pillar | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stiff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | punishment's back | stiff property | 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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