Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 44
At the same moment more water streamed into the gutter, so that it overflowed, and the piece of bottle was carried away.
Who acts: gutter · What happens: stream, overflow, carry away · To what, where: more water, gutter, piece
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gutter), 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 | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overflowed | obl |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | nmod |
| 7 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 water | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 gutter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gutter | det |
| 10 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streamed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overflowed | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 overflowed | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 overflowed | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 overflowed | nsubj |
| 15 | overflowed | overflow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carried | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bottle | case |
| 21 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 overflowed | parataxis |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 carried | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 overflowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | participle | more water not said here | the gutter | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into gutter=Location | ||||
| 2 | overflow | past | gutter | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry away | past · passive | the piece of bottle | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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