Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 37

The stone lost its balance just as they reached it, and rolled over into the abyss beneath, while the noise of its fall was echoed back from every hollow cliff of the glaciers.

Who acts: stone, torrents, fall · What happens: lose, reach, roll over, echo back, balance, noise · To what, where: balance, stone, abyss, noise, hollow cliff

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: who acts (stone, torrents, fall), 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 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 balance	nmod:poss
5	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 reached	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rolled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rolled	cc
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	parataxis
14	over	over	ADV	_	13 rolled	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 abyss	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 abyss	det
17	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
18	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	13 rolled	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 echoed	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 echoed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 noise	det
22	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 echoed	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 fall	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fall	nmod:poss
25	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noise	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 echoed	aux:pass
27	echoed	echo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rolled	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 echoed	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 cliff	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 cliff	det
31	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cliff	amod
32	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 echoed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 glaciers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 glaciers	det
35	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 cliff	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the stone	stone's balance			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
2	reach	past	torrents = torrent	stone			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	roll over	participle			the abyss	beneath, over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into abyss=Destination
4	echo back	past · passive		the noise of stone's fall	every hollow cliff of the glaciers		vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	balance		stone				nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent
6	noise		stone's fall				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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