Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 12
"Crack" went the shell as it burst, and the five peas rolled out into the bright sunshine.
Who acts: Crack · What happens: go, burst, roll out · To what, where: shell, five peas, bright sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crack), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 2 | Crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shell | det |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 burst | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burst | nsubj |
| 9 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rolled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rolled | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 peas | det |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 peas | nummod |
| 14 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 rolled | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sunshine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sunshine | det |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sunshine | amod |
| 20 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Crack | the shell | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | Crack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roll out | participle · passive | the five peas | the bright sunshine | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sunshine=Trajectory |
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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