Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 61
Crack went the egg-shell, as a waggon passed over it. "
Who acts: Crack · What happens: go, pass · To what, where: egg shell, waggon, shell
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 (Crack), 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 | Crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shell | det |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shell | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 egg | punct |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waggon | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 waggon | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 waggon | det |
| 10 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 waggon | acl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Crack | the egg shell | as a waggon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | participle | a waggon not said here | shell | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
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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