Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 7

The peak of this cap was broken in the middle, so that he could easily roll it up and put it in his pocket.

Who acts: boy · What happens: break, roll up, put · To what, where: peak, middle, cap, pocket

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 peak	det
2	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cap	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peak	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux:pass
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 roll	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 roll	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 roll	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 roll	aux
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 roll	advmod
17	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 broken	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 roll	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 roll	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 roll	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 pocket	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pocket	nmod:poss
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the peak of this cap	the middle		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	roll up	could	boy	cap		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	boy not said here	cap	boy's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=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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