Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 109

The tin soldier had fallen through a crack between the boards, and lay there now in an open grave.

Who acts: tin soldier · What happens: fall, lay · To what, where: crack, open grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin soldier), 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 soldier	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	compound
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 crack	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crack	det
8	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	obl
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 boards	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boards	det
11	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crack	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
14	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 grave	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grave	det
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grave	amod
20	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the tin soldier			a crack between the boards			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through crack=Location
2	lay	infinitive				a open grave; there	now		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in grave=Destination

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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