Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 20

"What is to happen will happen," exclaimed the last, as he was shot out of the pea-shooter; and as he spoke he flew up against an old board under a garret-window, and fell into a little crevice, which was almost filled up with moss and soft earth.

Who acts: boy · What happens: be, happen, exclaim, shoot, speak, fly up · To what, where: last, boy, pea shooter, garret window, little crevice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy), 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	_	5 happen	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 exclaimed	ccomp
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	aux
7	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 last	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 exclaimed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shot	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 shot	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shot	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shot	aux:pass
17	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 exclaimed	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	23 shooter	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 shooter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shooter	det
21	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shooter	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 pea	punct
23	shooter	shooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shot	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 spoke	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 flew	nsubj
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 spoke	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 flew	compound:prt
32	against	against	ADP	_	35 board	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 board	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 board	amod
35	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
36	under	under	ADP	_	40 window	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 window	det
38	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 window	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 garret	punct
40	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fell	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fell	cc
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 crevice	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 crevice	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 crevice	amod
47	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 filled	punct
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 filled	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 filled	aux:pass
51	almost	almost	ADV	_	52 filled	advmod
52	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 crevice	acl
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 filled	compound:prt
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 moss	case
55	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 filled	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 earth	cc
57	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 earth	amod
58	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 moss	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				happen property	tree rules
2	happen in a quote	future					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	past		the last			tree rules
4	shoot	past · passive		boy	the pea shooter		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme out shooter=Destination
5	speak speech: other	past	boy				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fly up	past	boy		a garret window	against a old board	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent against board=Location
7	fall	past				into a little crevice result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crevice=Result
8	fill up	past · passive		a little crevice		with moss and soft earth; almost property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with moss=Instrument

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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