Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 62
And while she thus suffered in a place where nothing changed, years passed away on earth, and she heard her name less frequently mentioned.
Who acts: child, nothing, years · What happens: suffer, change, pass away, hear, mention, name · To what, where: place, earth, name
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, nothing, years), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 suffered | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suffered | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 suffered | advmod |
| 5 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffered | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 changed | advmod |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffered | punct |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 frequently | advmod |
| 25 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 26 mentioned | advmod |
| 26 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 heard | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | child | a place | thus property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | change | past | nothing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass away | past | years | earth | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | hear | past | child | child's name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mention speech: other | participle | child not said here | frequently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | name | child | nom name «communication 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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