Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 146

Then I rushed against the house and the old lime-trees with such force, that one of the thickest branches, a decayed one, was broken off, and the branch fell at the entrance, and remained there.

Who acts: I, branch · What happens: rush, decay, break off, fall, remain · To what, where: house, entrance

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 (I, branch), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rushed	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 rushed	nsubj
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 trees	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
10	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lime	punct
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 house	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 force	case
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 force	amod
15	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 one	det
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 trees	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 branches	det
21	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 branches	amod
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 branches	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broken	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 broken	aux:pass
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rushed	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 broken	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fell	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 branch	det
34	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	nsubj
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 entrance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 entrance	det
38	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 remained	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 remained	cc
41	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	conj
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 remained	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	rush	past	I	the house and the old lime trees with such force	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against house=Trajectory
2	decay	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	break off	past · passive	I not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
4	fall	past	the branch	the entrance		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at entrance=Location
5	remain	past	I not said here	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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