Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 11

The cat was after him, but he had escaped from her with a broken wing, and so came tumbling into the yard. "

Who acts: cat · What happens: be, escape, break, come, tumble · To what, where: cat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cat	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 escaped	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 escaped	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 escaped	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 escaped	aux
10	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cat	acl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 escaped	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 wing	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wing	det
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wing	amod
16	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escaped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 came	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 yard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 yard	det
24	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tumbling	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			after bird		tree rules
2	escape	past · perfect	cat	the cat not said here		from crowing; with a broken wing	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Initial_Location
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	the cat				tree rules
5	tumble	gerund	the cat not said here			into the yard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location

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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