Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 8

As a little child you used to trample on my apron, but one day I fear you will trample on my heart."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: use, trample, fear · To what, where: apron, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trample	mark
8	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 apron	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 apron	nmod:poss
11	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trample	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fear	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 fear	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fear	obl:unmarked
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fear	nsubj
17	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 used	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 trample	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 trample	aux
20	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fear	ccomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 heart	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trample	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	you			as a little child	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	trample	to-infinitive	you not said here	my apron			tree rules
3	fear	present	I		day		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	trample	future	you	my 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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