Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 152

Then a lad came and chopped the tree into small pieces, till a large bundle lay in a heap on the ground.

Who acts: lad, large bundle · What happens: come, chop, lie · To what, where: tree, small pieces, heap

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, large bundle), 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	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chopped	cc
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chopped	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chopped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 lay	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bundle	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bundle	amod
16	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 heap	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heap	det
20	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a lad			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chop	past	a lad not said here	the tree			into small pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent tree=Patient into piece=Result
3	lie	past	a large bundle		a heap		on the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location

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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