Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 28
Here fell a leaf and there fell a leaf. "
What happens: fall · To what, where: leaf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fell | advmod |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 fell | expl |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 leaf | det |
| 9 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a leaf | here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient leaf=Result | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a leaf | there | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient leaf=Result |
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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