Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 47
The higher branches were snapped off, and carried away to a great distance; and among these shattered branches lay Rudy's uncle, with his skull fractured.
Who acts: shattered branches, skull · What happens: snap off, carry away, lay, fracture · To what, where: higher branches, uncle
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 (shattered branches, skull), 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 | 3 branches | det |
| 2 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 branches | amod |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snapped | aux:pass |
| 5 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 snapped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 snapped | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distance | amod |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 branches | det |
| 19 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 branches | amod |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 snapped | conj |
| 22 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Rudy | case |
| 24 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fractured | punct |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 fractured | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 skull | nmod:poss |
| 28 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fractured | nsubj |
| 29 | fractured | fracture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lay | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap off | past · passive | the higher branches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry away | past | to a great distance; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to distance=Destination | |||||
| 3 | lay | present | this shattered branches | Rudy's uncle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Result | ||||
| 4 | fracture | past | Rudy's skull | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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