Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 96

The floor was too open--the pewter soldier had fallen through a crevice, and there he lay as in an open tomb.

Who acts: floor, pewter soldier, man · What happens: be, fall, lie · To what, where: crevice

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, pewter soldier, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 fallen	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soldier	det
8	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldier	amod
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fallen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	aux
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 open	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 crevice	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crevice	det
14	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fallen	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 lay	expl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 tomb	case
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 tomb	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tomb	det
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tomb	amod
24	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the floor		open property	tree rules
2	fall	past · perfect	the pewter soldier	a crevice		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through crevice=Location
3	lie	past	man	there	as a open tomb	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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