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title: A song was made about "The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A song was made about "The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes from being soiled," and this song was sung everywhere. Who acts: girl. 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 cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 47

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A song was made about "The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes from being soiled," and this song was sung everywhere.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** make, tread, keep, soil, sing · **To what, where:** song, loaf, shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl), 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:pg27200:37:47
# text = A song was made about "The girl who trod on a loaf to keep her shoes from being soiled," and this song was sung everywhere.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	soiled	soil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
28	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | a song |  |  |  | about the girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **tread** *in a quote* | past | the girl |  |  | a loaf |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on loaf=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | girl's shoes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 4 | **soil** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · passive |  | this song |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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