Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 106
One morning he broke, and sunk down altogether; and, behold, where he had stood, something like a broomstick remained sticking up in the ground.
Who acts: Man · What happens: break, sink down, stand, remain, stick up · To what, where: something, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sunk | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sunk | cc |
| 7 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broke | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sunk | compound:prt |
| 9 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 sunk | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 behold | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 18 stood | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | aux |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 broke | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 something | punct |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 stood | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 broomstick | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 broomstick | det |
| 23 | broomstick | broomstick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remained | obl |
| 24 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 something | acl:relcl |
| 25 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 remained | xcomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 sticking | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sticking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Man | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink down | participle | Man not said here | altogether property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · perfect | Man | something | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | like a broomstick | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stick up | gerund | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ground=Destination |
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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