Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 38
The mill fell, and nothing remained of it but a heap of ashes.
Who acts: mill, nothing · What happens: fall, remain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, nothing), 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 mill | det |
| 2 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remained | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remained | obl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 heap | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heap | det |
| 12 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ashes | case |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heap | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the mill | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | nothing | of bit | 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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