Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 236
The bones fell asunder and became mingled with others.
Who acts: bones · What happens: fall, become, mingle · To what, where: asunder
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), 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 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 became | cc |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 7 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mingled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the bones | asunder | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient asunder=Result | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the bones not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | the bones not said here | with others | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with other=Co-Patient |
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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