Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 21
Martha had fallen into the sleep of death just as we arrived there.
Who acts: Martha, we, death · What happens: fall, arrive, sleep · To what, where: sleep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martha, we, death), 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 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fallen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fallen | aux |
| 3 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sleep | det |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fallen | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | nmod |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 arrived | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fallen | advcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 arrived | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Martha | into the sleep of death result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | we | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | death | nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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