Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 61
It made her feel quite strange, and she would gladly have wept herself, and it added to her torment to find she could not do so.
Who acts: mercy, child · What happens: make, feel, weep, add, find, not do · 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 (mercy, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 strange | advmod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wept | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wept | aux |
| 11 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 13 wept | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wept | aux |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 wept | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 added | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 added | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 added | nsubj |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 torment | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 torment | nmod:poss |
| 21 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 added | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 added | advcl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 find | ccomp |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | mercy | child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | child not said here | strange property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | weep | would · perfect | child | child | gladly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | mercy | to child's torment | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to torment=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | mercy not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not do | could | child | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | torment | child | nom torment «state transitive»: poss=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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