Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 69

The main mast was split asunder, the ship sprang a leak, and the pumps became useless, while all around was black as night.

Who acts: split asunder, pumps · What happens: split, spring, become, be · To what, where: main mast, leak

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 (split asunder, pumps), 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	3 mast	det
2	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mast	amod
3	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 split	aux:pass
5	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asunder	amod
6	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ship	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asunder	conj
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 leak	det
12	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 became	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pumps	det
16	pumps	pump	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 became	nsubj
17	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	parataxis
18	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 black	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 black	mark
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 around	advmod
22	around	around	ADV	_	24 black	advmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 black	cop
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 became	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 night	case
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 black	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	split	past · passive		the main mast			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	spring	past	split asunder and the ship	a leak			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leak=Theme
3	become	past	the pumps			useless property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the pumps not said here		night	around, black property	tree rules

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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