Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 6

She grew worse instead of better with years, and, unfortunately, she was pretty, which caused her to be excused, when she should have been sharply reproved.

Who acts: child · What happens: grow, be, cause, excuse, reprove · To what, where: child

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 (child), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	advmod
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 better	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 worse	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caused	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caused	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unfortunately	punct
12	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	19 caused	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretty	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pretty	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pretty	cop
16	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 unfortunately	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caused	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 caused	nsubj
19	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caused	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 excused	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 excused	aux:pass
23	excused	excuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 caused	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reproved	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 reproved	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reproved	nsubj:pass
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 reproved	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 reproved	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 reproved	aux:pass
30	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	31 reproved	advmod
31	reproved	reprove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 excused	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	child			year	badly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	child				pretty property	tree rules
3	cause	past			child		unfortunately property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition she=Patient
4	excuse	to-infinitive · passive						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	reprove	should · perfect · passive		child			sharply property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP 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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