Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 32
Trunks of fallen trees and blocks of stone form bridges over these streams.
What happens: fall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. 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 | Trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 trees | case |
| 3 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 trees | amod |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Trunks | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blocks | cc |
| 6 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trees | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bridges | case |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | compound |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bridges | compound |
| 10 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blocks | nmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 streams | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 streams | det |
| 13 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bridges | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trunks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «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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