Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 193

For a time he had trembled on the high pedestal on which he had placed himself, till at last he toppled over, and ruin came.

Who acts: wealth, ruin · What happens: tremble, place, topple over, come · To what, where: high pedestal, wealth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth, ruin), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembled	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trembled	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trembled	aux
6	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 pedestal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pedestal	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pedestal	amod
10	pedestal	pedestal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembled	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 placed	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 placed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 placed	aux
15	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 pedestal	acl:relcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 placed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 toppled	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	20 last	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 toppled	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 toppled	nsubj
22	toppled	topple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trembled	parataxis
23	over	over	ADV	_	22 toppled	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 toppled	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · perfect	wealth		the high pedestal	time		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pedestal=Location
2	place	past · perfect	wealth	wealth	the high pedestal			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on which=Destination
3	topple over	past	wealth			till last	over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	ruin					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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