Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 120
Fortunately it burst at the first sound, and that was a good thing, for then it was put back into its owner's pocket--"its right place."
Who acts: flute, that · What happens: burst, be, put back · To what, where: first sound, good thing, flute, pocket
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flute, that), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 3 burst | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 sound | amod |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thing | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 then | case |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 put | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux:pass |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 burst | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 pocket | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 owner | nmod:poss |
| 24 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 owner | case |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl | ||
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 30 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | flute | the first sound | fortunately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | that | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put back | past · passive | flute | flute's owner's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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