Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 45

Once three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage fell down right into the dungeon of Ugolino, where that unhappy man was to be starved to death; and there was great laughter among the audience.

Who acts: three apples · What happens: fall down, starve, be · To what, where: dungeon, unhappy man, great laughter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three apples), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 apples	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 apples	nummod
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fell	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 piece	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apples	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 butter	cc
11	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sausage	cc
13	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	conj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 dungeon	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 dungeon	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dungeon	det
19	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Ugolino	case
21	Ugolino	Ugolino	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dungeon	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 starved	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 starved	advmod
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 man	det
25	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 starved	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 starved	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 starved	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 starved	aux:pass
30	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 dungeon	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 starved	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 laughter	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 was	cc
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 laughter	cop
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 laughter	amod
38	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
39	among	among	ADP	_	41 audience	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 audience	det
41	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laughter	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage		into the dungeon of Ugolino result; down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into dungeon=Result
2	starve	past · passive	three apples and a great piece of bread and butter and sausage not said here	that unhappy man	to death	tree rules
3	is a	past		great laughter	among the audience	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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