More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 23

Then she broke the pear, and found it filled with jewellery far richer than the contents of the apple.

Who acts: hill, pear · What happens: break, find, fill · To what, where: pear

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill, pear), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 broke	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pear	det
5	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	obj
10	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 jewellery	case
12	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filled	obl
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 richer	advmod
14	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 jewellery	amod
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 contents	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 contents	det
17	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 richer	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 apple	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 apple	det
20	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contents	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	hill	the pear	then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pear=Patient
2	find	past	hill not said here	pear			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	fill	participle	pear not said here			with jewellery	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with jewellery=Instrument

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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