Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 204

And the gardener's boy chopped the Tree into small pieces; there was a whole heap lying there.

Who acts: boy, whole heap · What happens: chop, be, lie · To what, where: Tree, small pieces

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 (boy, whole heap), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 chopped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 gardener	case
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chopped	nsubj
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tree	det
8	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chopped	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chopped	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chopped	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 heap	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 heap	amod
17	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
18	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 heap	acl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 lying	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chop	past	the gardener's boy	the Tree		into small pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent tree=Patient into piece=Result
2	be	past	a whole heap		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	gerund	a whole heap not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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