Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 19
It was a slate, in such distress because of a false number in the sum, that it had almost broken itself to pieces.
Who acts: drawer · What happens: be, break · To what, where: slate, drawer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawer), 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 | 4 slate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slate | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 slate | det |
| 4 | slate | slate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 distress | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 distress | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distress | amod |
| 8 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slate | appos |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 number | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 12 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 number | amod |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distress | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sum | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sum | det |
| 16 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 number | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 broken | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 broken | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 broken | aux |
| 21 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 broken | advmod |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slate | parataxis |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 broken | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 broken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | drawer | a slate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | drawer | to pieces; almost property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient itself=Result |
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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