Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 34

He had jumped into the dust-bin, where all sorts of rubbish were lying: cabbage-stalks, dust, and rain-droppings that had fallen down from the gutter under the roof.

Who acts: love, sorts, rain droppings · What happens: jump, lie, fall down, sort · To what, where: dust bin, cabbage stalks, gutter, rubbish

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, sorts, rain droppings), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jumped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	aux
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 bin	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bin	det
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bin	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 dust	punct
8	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lying	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lying	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lying	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rubbish	case
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sorts	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 jumped	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 stalks	punct
18	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stalks	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 cabbage	punct
20	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dust	punct
22	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stalks	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 droppings	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 droppings	cc
25	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 droppings	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 rain	punct
27	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stalks	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fallen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fallen	aux
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 droppings	acl:relcl
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 fallen	compound:prt
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 gutter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gutter	det
34	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fallen	obl
35	under	under	ADP	_	37 roof	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 roof	det
37	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fallen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	love			into the dust bin result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bin=Result
2	lie	past · progressive	all sorts of rubbish	cabbage stalks and dust and rain droppings			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall down	past · perfect	rain droppings		the gutter	under the roof	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under roof=Location
4	sort			rubbish			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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