Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 19
Presently she moved again--she stumbled: the earthen vessel fell from her head, and broke on the marble steps.
Who acts: beam, earthen vessel · What happens: move, stumble, fall, break · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam, earthen vessel), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 stumbled | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stumbled | nsubj |
| 7 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 10 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vessel | amod |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moved | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 broke | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broke | cc |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steps | det |
| 21 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 steps | compound |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 broke | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | beam | again | presently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stumble | past | beam | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the earthen vessel | beam's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | break | past | the earthen vessel not said here | on the marble steps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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