Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 51
The harpoon was flung into the breast of the walrus, so that a smoking stream of blood spurted forth like a fountain, and besprinkled the ice.
What happens: fling, spurt, besprinkle · To what, where: harpoon, breast, smoking stream, ice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 harpoon | det |
| 2 | harpoon | harpoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flung | aux:pass |
| 4 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 breast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 breast | det |
| 7 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 walrus | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walrus | det |
| 10 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stream | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 15 | smoking | smoking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stream | compound |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stream | nmod |
| 19 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stream | acl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 spurted | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 fountain | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fountain | det |
| 23 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spurted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 besprinkled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 besprinkled | cc |
| 26 | besprinkled | besprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flung | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ice | det |
| 28 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 besprinkled | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past · passive | the harpoon | the breast of the walrus | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into breast=Destination | ||||
| 2 | spurt | participle | a smoking stream of blood not said here | like a fountain; forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | besprinkle | participle | the ice | 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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