Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 81

Oh, how they rushed upon it, till the branches cracked, and had it not been fastened with the glistening star to the ceiling, it must have been thrown down.

Who acts: children, branches, permission · What happens: rush, crack, have, not fasten, glisten, throw down · To what, where: permission

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 (children, branches, permission), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 rushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rushed	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 rushed	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rushed	nsubj
5	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rushed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cracked	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 cracked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branches	det
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cracked	nsubj
12	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rushed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rushed	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 fastened	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 fastened	aux:pass
19	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 star	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 star	det
22	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 star	amod
23	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fastened	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ceiling	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ceiling	det
26	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 star	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thrown	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thrown	nsubj:pass
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 thrown	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 thrown	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 thrown	aux:pass
32	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 had	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 thrown	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	children = child		permission		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
2	crack	past	the branches				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past		permission			tree rules
4	not fasten	participle · passive	permission not said here			with the glistening star to the ceiling	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: with star=Co-Patient
5	glisten	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	throw down	must · perfect · passive		permission			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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