Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 184
Soon would the storm burst, the ice break, and all who were on it be irretrievably lost.
What happens: lose
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: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 burst | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 burst | det |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | compound |
| 5 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 break | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | compound |
| 9 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 all | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 burst | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lost | aux:pass |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 lost | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | irretrievably | irretrievably | ADV | _ | 19 lost | advmod |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | irretrievably property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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