Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 29

Now, whether it was the goblin who did it, or the draught, is not known, but the window flew open, and out fell the tin soldier, heels over head, from the third story, into the street beneath.

Who acts: snuff, goblin, window · What happens: be, do, not know, fly, fall · To what, where: goblin, snuff, tin soldier, third story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snuff, goblin, window), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 known	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 goblin	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 goblin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 goblin	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goblin	det
7	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 known	nsubj:pass
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 goblin	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 draught	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 draught	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 draught	det
14	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goblin	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goblin	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux:pass
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 known	advmod
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 known	parataxis
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flew	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
27	out	out	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flew	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soldier	det
30	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 soldier	compound
31	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heels	punct
33	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 soldier	conj
34	over	over	ADP	_	35 head	case
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heels	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 story	punct
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 story	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 story	det
39	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 story	amod
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 beneath	punct
42	into	into	ADP	_	45 beneath	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 beneath	det
44	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 beneath	compound
45	beneath	beneath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	snuff	the goblin or the draught				tree rules
2	do	past	the goblin or the draught	snuff				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	not know	present · passive		the goblin or the draught		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	fly	past	the window				open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	the window not said here	the tin soldier and heels over head	the third story		into the street beneath; out property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient soldier=Extent from story=Initial_State

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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