Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 63

Alas! there lay the old Chinaman on the floor; he had fallen down from the table as he attempted to run after them, and was broken into three pieces; his back had separated entirely, and his head had rolled into a corner of the room.

Who acts: place · What happens: lie, fall down, attempt, run, break, separate · To what, where: old Chinaman, floor, table, three pieces, back, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 lay	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chinaman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Chinaman	amod
7	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 fallen	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fallen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	aux
14	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lay	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 fallen	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fallen	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 attempted	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 attempted	nsubj
21	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fallen	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 run	mark
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 attempted	xcomp
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 run	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broken	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 broken	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 broken	aux:pass
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 attempted	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 pieces	case
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pieces	nummod
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 broken	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 separated	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 separated	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 separated	aux
37	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	conj
38	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	37 separated	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rolled	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rolled	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rolled	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rolled	aux
44	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 separated	conj
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 corner	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 corner	det
47	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rolled	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 room	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 room	det
50	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 corner	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		the old Chinaman	the floor; there			tree rules
2	fall down	past · perfect	place		the table			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location
3	attempt	past	place					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	place not said here			after legs = leg		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break	past · passive	place not said here				into three pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=Result
6	separate	past · perfect · passive		place's back			entirely property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	roll	past · perfect · passive		place's head	a corner of the room			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into corner=Trajectory

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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