Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 50
It fell among the rushes on the borders of a little woodland lake.
Who acts: glass · What happens: fall · To what, where: rushes
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 (glass), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 rushes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rushes | det |
| 5 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 borders | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 borders | det |
| 8 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushes | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lake | amod |
| 12 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lake | compound |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 borders | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | glass | the rushes on the borders of a little woodland lake | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among rush=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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