Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 123
Some of the bricks, however, crumbled to pieces, or were broken, but the elder brother found a use for even these.
Who acts: bricks, elder brother · What happens: crumble, break, find · To what, where: use
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bricks, elder brother), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bricks | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bricks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bricks | det |
| 4 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crumbled | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bricks | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 crumbled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crumbled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broken | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 broken | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broken | aux:pass |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 crumbled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brother | det |
| 18 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crumbled | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 use | det |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 these | case |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 these | advmod |
| 25 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crumble | participle | some bricks | to pieces result; however property | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | some bricks not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | find | past | the elder brother | a use | for these | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent use=Theme for this=Beneficiary |
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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