Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 99

First one window became broken, and then another, so that I could get in at other places besides the door. '

Who acts: one window, I · What happens: become, break, get in · To what, where: other places

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 (one window, I), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 became	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 window	nummod
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 another	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 another	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 another	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 became	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 get	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 became	conj
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 get	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 places	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 places	amod
19	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 get	obl
20	besides	besides	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 places	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	one window		first property	tree rules
2	break	participle	one window not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	get in	could	I	other places besides the door		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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