Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 22

“Kribledy, krabledy--plump!” down fell somebody: it was a wooden bird, the popinjay used at the shooting-matches at Prastoe.

Who acts: Kribledy, encounter · What happens: fall, be, use · To what, where: somebody, wooden bird, popinjay, shooting matches

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kribledy, encounter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kribledy	punct
2	Kribledy	Kribledy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 krabledy	punct
4	krabledy	krabledy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kribledy	conj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 plump	punct
6	plump	plump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kribledy	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Kribledy	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kribledy	punct
9	down	down	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 fell	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bird	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bird	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 popinjay	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 popinjay	det
20	popinjay	popinjay	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	conj
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 popinjay	acl
22	at	at	ADP	_	26 matches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matches	det
24	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 matches	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 shooting	punct
26	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 used	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 Prastoe	case
28	Prastoe	Prastoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 matches	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Kribledy and krabledy	somebody		down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient somebody=Result
2	is a	past	encounter	a wooden bird and the popinjay			tree rules
3	use	participle		the popinjay not said here	the shooting matches at Prastoe		vn eat-39.1 «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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