Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 110

He thrust his fingers farther and farther into his ears, till at last the drums burst.

Who acts: tumult, drums · What happens: thrust, burst · To what, where: fingers, ears

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tumult, drums), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thrust	obj
5	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 thrust	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 farther	cc
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 farther	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 ears	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thrust	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 last	punct
12	till	till	ADP	_	14 last	case
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thrust	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 drums	det
16	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 last	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	tumult	tumult's fingers		tumult's ears		far property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	burst	past	the drums						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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