Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 6

The snail certainly took half a year to get over the threshold of the door; but he injured himself, and broke his collar-bone by the haste he made.

Who acts: snail · What happens: take, get, injure, break, make · To what, where: threshold, snail, collar bone, haste

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail), 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 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 year	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 threshold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 threshold	det
12	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threshold	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 injured	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 injured	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 injured	nsubj
19	injured	injure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 injured	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broke	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 broke	cc
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 injured	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bone	nmod:poss
25	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bone	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 collar	punct
27	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 haste	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 haste	det
30	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 haste	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the snail			year	certainly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	to-infinitive	the snail not said here		the threshold of the door			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over threshold=Destination
3	injure	past	snail	snail				tree rules
4	break	past	snail not said here	snail's collar bone			by the haste	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient
5	make	past	snail	the haste not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product

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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