Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 26

It was perfect in the upper part, but the foot was broken off, and it had therefore been fixed upon a little carved block of wood, painted blue.

Who acts: bottle · What happens: be, break off, fix, carve, paint · To what, where: upper part, foot, bottle, little carved block

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottle), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perfect	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perfect	cop
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 part	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 part	amod
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perfect	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 broken	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foot	det
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broken	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 broken	aux:pass
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 perfect	parataxis
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 broken	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fixed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fixed	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fixed	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fixed	aux
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	21 fixed	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 fixed	aux:pass
21	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 broken	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 block	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 block	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 block	amod
25	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 block	amod
26	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fixed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 wood	case
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 block	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 painted	punct
30	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 block	acl
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 painted	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perfect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bottle		the upper part	perfect property	tree rules
2	break off	past · passive		the foot			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fix	past · perfect · passive		bottle		upon a little carved block of wood; therefore property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	paint	participle		a little carved block of wood not said here		blue property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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