Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 35
And then came creeping over her face and eyes flies without wings; she winked and blinked, but they could not fly away, for their wings had been pulled off; this, added to the hunger she felt, was horrible torture.
Who acts: creeping, punishment, wings · What happens: come, creep, fly, wink, blink, not fly away · To what, where: face, wings, this, hunger, horrible torture
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 (creeping, punishment, wings), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 flies | csubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creeping | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eyes | cc |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 face | conj |
| 10 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flies | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 winked | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 winked | nsubj |
| 15 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blinked | cc |
| 17 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 winked | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fly | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 fly | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fly | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fly | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fly | advmod |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 fly | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pulled | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 pulled | mark |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wings | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 pulled | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 pulled | aux:pass |
| 31 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fly | conj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 pulled | compound:prt |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 added | punct |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 added | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 added | punct |
| 36 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 hunger | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hunger | det |
| 39 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 added | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 felt | nsubj |
| 41 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 hunger | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 torture | punct |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 torture | cop |
| 44 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 torture | amod |
| 45 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | punishment's face and eyes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | fly | present | creeping | without wings | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wink | past | punishment | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | blink | past | punishment not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not fly away | could | wings = wing | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pull off | past · perfect · passive | wings's wings | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | add speech: assert | participle · passive | this | to the hunger | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to hunger=Co-Patient | ||||
| 9 | feel | past | punishment | the hunger not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme | ||||
| 10 | is a | past | horrible torture | 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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