Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 140
But the pieces had got such an impetus in them, that they could not stop themselves.
Who acts: pieces, people · What happens: get, not stop · To what, where: impetus, people
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 (pieces, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pieces | det |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 impetus | det:predet |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 impetus | det |
| 8 | impetus | impetus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 impetus | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stop | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stop | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 stop | advmod |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | parataxis |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 stop | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | the pieces | such impetus | in people | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer impetus=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not stop | could | people | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality themselves=Eventuality |
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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