Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 42
The sin she had committed in treading on the loaf was known on earth, for she had been seen by the cowherd from the hill, when she was crossing the marsh and had disappeared.
Who acts: punishment, cowherd · What happens: commit, know, see, cross, disappear · To what, where: sin, treading, earth, punishment, marsh
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, cowherd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sin | det |
| 2 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 committed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 committed | aux |
| 5 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sin | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 treading | case |
| 7 | treading | treading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 committed | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 loaf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loaf | det |
| 10 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treading | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 known | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 cowherd | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cowherd | det |
| 23 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cowherd | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 crossing | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 crossing | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 crossing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 crossing | aux |
| 31 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 cowherd | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 marsh | det |
| 33 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crossing | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 disappeared | cc |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 disappeared | aux |
| 36 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 seen | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past · perfect | punishment | the sin not said here | treading on the loaf | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sin=Theme in treading=Destination | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the sin | earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the cowherd from the hill | punishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cross | past · progressive | punishment | the marsh | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsh=Patient | ||||
| 5 | disappear | past · perfect | the cowherd from the hill not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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