Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 139
The balloon was already far away, and very soon the bottle was far away also; for it fell upon a roof, and broke in pieces.
Who acts: balloon, bottle · What happens: be, fall, break · To what, where: roof, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balloon, bottle), 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 balloon | det |
| 2 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 away | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottle | det |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 away | cop |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 away | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 fell | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 roof | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 roof | det |
| 23 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broke | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broke | cc |
| 26 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fell | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 pieces | case |
| 28 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 broke | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the balloon | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the bottle | away, far, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | balloon | a roof | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon roof=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | past | balloon not said here | pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=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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