Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 57
Then the paper boat fell to pieces, and the soldier sank into the water and immediately afterwards was swallowed up by a great fish.
Who acts: paper boat, soldier, great fish · What happens: fall, sink, swallow up · To what, where: water
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 (paper boat, soldier, great fish), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boat | compound |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldier | det |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swallowed | cc |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 swallowed | advmod |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 20 swallowed | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 20 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sank | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 fish | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fish | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fish | amod |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swallowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the paper boat | then | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | sink | past | the soldier | the water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swallow up | past · passive | a great fish | afterwards, immediately property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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