Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 58
These pitying words penetrated to Inge's inmost heart, and seemed to do her good.
Who acts: pitying words · What happens: pity, penetrate, seem, do · To what, where: pitying words, heart
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 (pitying words), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 2 | pitying | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 words | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 6 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Inge | case |
| 8 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 penetrated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | cc |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | penetrate | participle | this pitying words not said here | to Inge's inmost heart | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | this pitying words | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | this pitying words not said here | heart | tree rules |
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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