Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 110
Then at last he had fallen to the earth, and could remember no more, nor how he came to be where she had found him.
Who acts: snow · What happens: fall, remember, come, find · To what, where: last, more, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fallen | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remember | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remember | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 remember | aux |
| 13 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 remember | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 came | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 found | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 came | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | snow | last | then | to the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||
| 2 | remember | could | more | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | earth | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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