Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 23
The bridge toppled over to one side, and then fell with a great splash into the water.
Who acts: bridge · What happens: topple over, fall · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge), 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 bridge | det |
| 2 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 toppled | nsubj |
| 3 | toppled | topple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 toppled | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 toppled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fell | advmod |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 toppled | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 splash | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 splash | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 splash | amod |
| 15 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 toppled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | topple over | past | the bridge | to one side; over property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the bridge not said here | then | into the water result; with a great splash | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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