Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 104
The door fell off its hinges, cracks and fissures made their appearance everywhere; so that I could go in and out at pleasure, and that is how I know all about it.
Who acts: door, fissures, I, that · What happens: fall off, make, go, be, know · To what, where: hinges, appearance, pleasure
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, fissures, I, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 hinges | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hinges | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cracks | punct |
| 8 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hinges | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | fissures | fissure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 made | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 go | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 out | cc |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 in | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 pleasure | case |
| 25 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 how | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 how | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 how | cop |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 know | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 it | advmod |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 know | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall off | past | the door | door's hinges and cracks | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hinge=Extent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | fissures | fissures's appearance | everywhere property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | |||
| 3 | go | could | I | pleasure | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pleasure=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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