Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 11

Whenever the bottom of the trunk cracked, he was in a great fright, for if the trunk fell to pieces he would have made a tremendous somerset over the trees.

Who acts: bottom, trunk · What happens: crack, be, fall, make · To what, where: great fright, tremendous somerset, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom, trunk), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 cracked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cracked	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 trunk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trunk	det
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod
7	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fright	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cracked	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fright	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fright	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 fright	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fright	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fright	amod
14	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 fell	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 fell	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trunk	det
19	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fright	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 pieces	case
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fell	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 made	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	aux
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 pieces	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 somerset	det
28	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 somerset	amod
29	somerset	somerset	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 trees	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 trees	det
32	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 somerset	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fright	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the bottom of the trunk			whenever property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	bottom		a great fright		tree rules
3	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	the trunk			to pieces	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme
4	make	would · perfect	bottom	a tremendous somerset	the trees		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somerset=Product

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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