Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 47
A song was made about "The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes from being soiled," and this song was sung everywhere.
Who acts: girl · What happens: make, tread, keep, soil, sing · To what, where: song, loaf, shoes · 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 trod | nsubj |
| 10 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 loaf | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 loaf | det |
| 13 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trod | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trod | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 soiled | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 soiled | aux:pass |
| 20 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 keep | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soiled | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 soiled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sung | cc |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 song | det |
| 25 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sung | aux:pass |
| 27 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 soiled | conj |
| 28 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 sung | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a song | about the girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | tread in a quote | past | the girl | a loaf | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl's shoes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | soil in a quote | gerund · passive | the girl not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past · passive | this song | everywhere property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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