Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 50
But one day, while hunger and grief were gnawing in her hollow frame, she heard a little, innocent child, while listening to the tale of the vain, haughty Inge, burst into tears and exclaim, "But will she never come up again?"
Who acts: hunger, girl, vain haughty Inge · What happens: gnaw, hear, listen, burst, exclaim, not come up · To what, where: one day, hollow frame, little innocent child, tears · 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 (hunger, girl, vain haughty Inge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gnawing | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 gnawing | mark |
| 6 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gnawing | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grief | cc |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunger | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gnawing | aux |
| 10 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 frame | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 frame | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 frame | amod |
| 14 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gnawing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 child | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 little | punct |
| 21 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 child | amod |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 listening | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 listening | mark |
| 25 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 heard | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 tale | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tale | det |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listening | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Inge | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Inge | det |
| 31 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Inge | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Inge | punct |
| 33 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Inge | amod |
| 34 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 burst | punct |
| 36 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | parataxis |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 tears | case |
| 38 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 burst | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 exclaim | cc |
| 40 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 burst | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 come | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 come | punct |
| 43 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 come | cc |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 come | aux |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 come | nsubj |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 come | advmod |
| 47 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 burst | conj |
| 48 | up | up | ADV | _ | 47 come | advmod |
| 49 | again | again | ADV | _ | 47 come | advmod |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past · progressive | hunger and grief | one day not said here | girl's hollow frame | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past | girl | a little innocent child | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | listen | gerund | girl not said here | to the tale of the vain haughty Inge | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not come up in a quote | future | girl | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell | the vain haughty Inge | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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