Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 108
The pumpkin fell to the ground, rolled down the hill into a "brush--heap," and, striking against a stump, was broken.
Who acts: pumpkin · What happens: fall, roll down, strike, break · To what, where: hill, brush, stump
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pumpkin), 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 pumpkin | det |
| 2 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rolled | punct |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 brush | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brush | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brush | punct |
| 15 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 heap | punct |
| 17 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brush | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heap | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 heap | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 striking | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 striking | punct |
| 22 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 brush | conj |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 stump | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stump | det |
| 25 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 striking | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broken | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the pumpkin | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll down | participle | the hill | a brush | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme into brush=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | a stump | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stump=Location | |||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |
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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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