Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 102

So they fell upon it with such violence that all its branches cracked; if it had not been fixed firmly in the ground, it would certainly have tumbled down.

Who acts: children · What happens: fall, crack, not fix, tumble down · To what, where: permission, such violence, ground

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 violence	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 violence	amod
8	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cracked	nsubj:pass
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 branches	det:predet
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 branches	nmod:poss
12	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cracked	nsubj:pass
13	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 violence	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fixed	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 fixed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fixed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fixed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fixed	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fixed	aux:pass
20	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	parataxis
21	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	20 fixed	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fixed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tumbled	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tumbled	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tumbled	aux
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	30 tumbled	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 tumbled	aux
30	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 tumbled	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	children = child		permission	with such violence	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
2	crack	participle · passive		such violence			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not fix a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		permission	the ground	firmly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	tumble down	would · perfect · passive		permission		certainly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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