Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 39

But when they turned to look at the gingerbread pair, the broken maiden was gone!

Who acts: children, broken maiden · What happens: turn, look, break, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, broken maiden), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 turned	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 pair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pair	det
9	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pair	compound
10	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 maiden	amod
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn	past	children = child		tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	at the gingerbread pair	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pair=Theme
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the broken maiden	gone property	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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