Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 45

And then the words of the kind people who had adopted her came to her ears, when they said, "Inge was a sinful girl, who did not value the gifts of God, but trampled them under her feet."

Who acts: words, Inge, sinful girl · What happens: adopt, come, say, be, not value, trample · To what, where: kind people, ears, sinful girl, gifts, feet, God · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (words, Inge, sinful girl), 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	_	13 came	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 words	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 adopted	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 adopted	aux
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 people	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 adopted	obj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 ears	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ears	nmod:poss
16	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 said	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 girl	punct
23	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 girl	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 girl	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 girl	det
26	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girl	amod
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 value	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 value	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 value	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 value	advmod
32	value	value	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 girl	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gifts	det
34	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 value	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 God	case
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 gifts	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 trampled	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 trampled	cc
39	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 trampled	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 feet	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 feet	nmod:poss
43	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 trampled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	adopt	past · perfect · passive		the kind people			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
2	come	past	the words of the kind people		mother's ears	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	words = word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	Inge	a sinful girl			tree rules
5	not value in a quote	past · do-support	a sinful girl	the gifts of God			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gift=Stimulus
6	trample in a quote	past	the words of the kind people not said here	gifts = gift	mother's feet		tree rules
7	word			the kind people			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	gift in a quote			God			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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