Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 48

The story of her sin was also told to the little children, and they called her "wicked Inge," and said she was so naughty that she ought to be punished.

Who acts: songs, girl · What happens: tell, call, say, be, punish · To what, where: story, little children, girl · 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 (songs, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sin	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sin	nmod:poss
5	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 children	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Inge	punct
19	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Inge	amod
20	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Inge	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Inge	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 called	conj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 naughty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 naughty	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 naughty	advmod
28	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 punished	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 punished	nsubj:pass
31	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 punished	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	34 punished	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 punished	aux:pass
34	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 naughty	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the story of girl's sin	the little children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to child=Recipient
2	call	past	songs = song		girl		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	songs = song not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	girl			naughty property	tree rules
5	punish	ought · passive		girl			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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