Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 18

This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery that any one passing that way might easily fall in, and be carried towards the mill wheel with frightful rapidity.

Who acts: channel, one · What happens: overflow, make, pass, fall in, carry · To what, where: path, way, mill wheel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (channel, one), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 channel	det
2	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overflowed	nsubj
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 overflowed	advmod
4	overflowed	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overflowed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 slippery	advmod
11	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fall	mark
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	nsubj
15	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 one	acl
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passing	obj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fall	aux
19	easily	easily	ADV	_	20 fall	advmod
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slippery	advcl
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 fall	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carried	cc
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 carried	aux:pass
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 overflowed	conj
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 wheel	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wheel	det
28	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wheel	compound
29	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 rapidity	case
31	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rapidity	amod
32	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overflowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overflow	past	this channel			sometimes property	tree rules
2	make	past	this channel not said here	the path		slippery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product
3	pass	gerund	any one not said here	that way			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
4	fall in	might	any one			easily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	infinitive · passive	this channel not said here		the mill wheel	with frightful rapidity	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: towards wheel=Destination

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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