Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 38

A tear, followed by many scalding tears, fell upon her head, and rolled over her face and neck, down to the loaf on which she stood.

Who acts: tear, punishment · What happens: follow, fall, roll, stand · To what, where: tear, head, face, 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 (tear, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tear	det
2	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct
4	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tear	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 tears	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tears	amod
7	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tears	compound
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 followed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rolled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rolled	cc
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolled	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 neck	cc
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 face	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 down	punct
23	down	down	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 loaf	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 loaf	det
26	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolled	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stood	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 loaf	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	participle		a tear not said here		by many scalding tears	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tear=Location
2	fall	past	a tear		punishment's head		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon head=Location
3	roll	past	a tear not said here		punishment's face and neck	to the loaf; down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over face=Source to loaf=Trajectory
4	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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