Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 66
My poor old grandfather is broken to pieces, and it is our fault.
Who acts: back · What happens: break, be · To what, where: poor old grandfather, fault
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 (back), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grandfather | amod |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fault | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fault | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fault | cop |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fault | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | My poor old grandfather | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | back | our fault | tree rules |
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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