Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 41
But the wood-cutter came, like a great revolution, and our family fell under the axe.
Who acts: wood cutter, family · What happens: come, fall · To what, where: axe
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 (wood cutter, family), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cutter | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutter | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 revolution | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 revolution | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 revolution | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 revolution | amod |
| 11 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 axe | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 axe | det |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wood cutter | like a great revolution | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | our family | the axe | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under axe=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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