Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 15
Amidst all this confusion, the angel pointed to the pieces of a broken flower-pot, and to a lump of earth which had fallen out of it.
Who acts: earth · What happens: point, break, fall · To what, where: angel, pieces, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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 | Amidst | Amidst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 confusion | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 confusion | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 confusion | det |
| 4 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 angel | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confusion | conj |
| 8 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 angel | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pieces | det |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pointed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pot | amod |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pot | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 flower | punct |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lump | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lump | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lump | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lump | det |
| 22 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confusion | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lump | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fallen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fallen | aux |
| 27 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 earth | acl:relcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fallen | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confusion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | participle | the angel not said here | the pieces of a broken flower pot | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to piece=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | earth | earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=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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