Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 72
The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak.
Who acts: lightning · What happens: strike, split
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning), 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 lightning | det |
| 2 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 split | cc |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 struck | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 roots | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roots | det |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 split | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oak | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oak | amod |
| 11 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oak | amod |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roots | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | the lightning | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | split | participle | the lightning not said here | to the roots the old venerable oak result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to root=Result |
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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