Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 81

A bird that felt timid and shy to all things around it, that seemed to shrink with shame from meeting any living creature, and hurriedly sought to conceal itself in a dark corner of an old ruined wall; there it sat cowering and unable to utter a sound, for it was voiceless.

Who acts: bird · What happens: feel, seem, shrink, meet, seek, conceal · To what, where: living creature, bird, dark corner, sound

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 (bird), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bird	acl:relcl
5	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shy	cc
7	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 timid	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 things	det
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shy	obl
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 things	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 shrink	mark
17	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 shame	case
19	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shrink	obl
20	from	from	SCONJ	_	21 meeting	mark
21	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 shrink	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 creature	det
23	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
24	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meeting	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sought	cc
27	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	28 sought	advmod
28	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seemed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 conceal	mark
30	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sought	xcomp
31	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 conceal	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 corner	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 corner	det
34	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 corner	amod
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 conceal	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 wall	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 wall	det
38	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 wall	amod
39	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 wall	amod
40	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 corner	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 sat	punct
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 sat	expl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sat	nsubj
44	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seemed	parataxis
45	cowering	cower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 sat	advcl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 unable	cc
47	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cowering	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 utter	mark
49	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 unable	xcomp
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 sound	det
51	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 utter	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 voiceless	punct
53	for	for	SCONJ	_	56 voiceless	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 voiceless	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 voiceless	cop
56	voiceless	voiceless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sat	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	a bird			timid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	seem	past	a bird				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	shrink	to-infinitive	a bird not said here			with shame	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shame=Instrument
4	meet	gerund	a bird not said here	any living creature			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent
5	seek	past	a bird not said here			hurriedly property	tree rules
6	conceal not said to happen	to-infinitive	a bird not said here	bird	a dark corner of a old ruined wall		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in corner=Location
7	ruin	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	sit	past	bird		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	cower	gerund	bird not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	bird not said here	a sound			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
11	is	past	bird			voiceless property	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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