Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 76
She burst into tears at the sight, and in heaven, as she had done when a little child on earth, she wept and prayed for poor Inge.
Who acts: woman, little child · What happens: burst, do, weep, pray · To what, where: tears
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 (woman, little 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 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 tears | case |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burst | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heaven | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heaven | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 burst | conj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 wept | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wept | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 child | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wept | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wept | nsubj |
| 25 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prayed | cc |
| 27 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wept | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Inge | case |
| 29 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Inge | amod |
| 30 | Inge | Inge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 prayed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | woman | tears | at the sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | a little child on earth | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pray | past | a little child on earth not said here | for poor Inge | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for inge=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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