Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 16
The earth had been kept from falling to pieces by the roots of a withered field-flower, which had been thrown amongst the rubbish.
What happens: keep, fall, wither, throw · To what, where: earth, withered field flower, rubbish
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kept | aux:pass |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 falling | mark |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 kept | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 falling | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 roots | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roots | det |
| 12 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 falling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flower | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 15 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 flower | amod |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flower | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 field | punct |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roots | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thrown | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thrown | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 thrown | aux:pass |
| 23 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 flower | conj |
| 24 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 26 rubbish | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rubbish | det |
| 26 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thrown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | to pieces result; by the roots of a withered field flower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient to piece=Result by root=Extent | |||||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | throw | past · perfect · passive | a withered field flower | the rubbish | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme amongst rubbish=Destination |
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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