Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 30
It was a terrible fall; for he came head downwards, his helmet and his bayonet stuck in between the flagstones, and his one leg up in the air.
Who acts: snuff, goblin · What happens: be, come · To what, where: terrible fall
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fall | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fall | amod |
| 5 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | parataxis |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 11 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helmet | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bayonet | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bayonet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bayonet | bayonet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helmet | conj |
| 18 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bayonet | amod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 flagstones | case |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 flagstones | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flagstones | det |
| 22 | flagstones | flagstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stuck | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 leg | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 leg | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 leg | nummod |
| 27 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fall | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 leg | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 air | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 air | det |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leg | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | snuff | a terrible fall and goblin's one leg in the air | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | goblin | downwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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