Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 242
The lizard sprang away and disappeared, and the skull itself crumbled to pieces and became dust among dust.
Who acts: lizard, skull · What happens: spring away, disappear, crumble, become · To what, where: dust
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 (lizard, skull), 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 lizard | det |
| 2 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 disappeared | cc |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crumbled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crumbled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skull | det |
| 10 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crumbled | nsubj |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 skull | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crumbled | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crumbled | conj |
| 17 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 dust | case |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring away | past | the lizard | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the lizard not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crumble | past | the skull lizard | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the skull lizard not said here | dust | among dust | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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