Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 31

Every fragment of stone broken off struck the sides of the rock in its fall, till it rolled into the depths beneath, and sunk to rest.

Who acts: fragment · What happens: break off, strike, roll, sink, rest · To what, where: fragment, sides, fall, depths

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fragment), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fragment	det
2	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fragment	nmod
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fragment	acl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 broken	compound:prt
7	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sides	det
9	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 struck	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sides	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fall	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fall	nmod:poss
15	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 struck	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 rolled	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rolled	nsubj
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 depths	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 depths	det
22	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	obl
23	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	19 rolled	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sunk	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sunk	cc
26	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rolled	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rest	mark
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sunk	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break off	participle		every fragment of stone not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	strike	past	every fragment of stone	the sides of the rock	fragment's fall		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient
3	roll	past	fragment		the depths	beneath property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Destination
4	sink	participle	fragment not said here				tree rules
5	rest	to-infinitive	fragment not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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