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title: Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her down as a g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her down as a golden ear of corn bends the stem. Who acts: loaf, golden ear. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 28

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Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her down as a golden ear of corn bends the stem.

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**Who acts:** loaf, golden ear · **What happens:** fasten, bow down, bend · **To what, where:** foot, woman, stem

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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 (loaf, golden ear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:37:28
# text = Her foot was still fastened to the loaf, which bowed her down as a golden ear of corn bends the stem.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | woman's foot |  |  | still | to the loaf | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to loaf=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **bow down** | past | the loaf | woman |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **bend** | present | a golden ear of corn | the stem |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stem=Material |

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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.

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**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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