Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 51

At the end of the tunnel the drain fell into a large canal over a steep place, which made it as dangerous for him as a waterfall would be to us.

Who acts: drain, steep place, waterfall · What happens: fall, make, be · To what, where: end, drain

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 (drain, steep place, waterfall), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tunnel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tunnel	det
6	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drain	det
8	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 canal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 canal	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 canal	amod
13	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 place	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 place	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 dangerous	case
23	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 made	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
26	as	as	ADP	_	32 us	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 waterfall	det
28	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 us	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 us	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 us	cop
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the drain		at the end of the tunnel	into a large canal; over a steep place	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into canal=Initial_Location over place=Destination
2	make	past	a steep place	drain		for arch; dangerous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for he=Beneficiary
3	is	would	a waterfall			as us	tree rules

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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