Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 168
A large marble pillar lay on the ground, which, in falling, had been broken into three pieces.
Who acts: large marble pillar, ground · What happens: lie, fall, break · To what, where: ground, three pieces
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 (large marble pillar, ground), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pillar | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pillar | amod |
| 3 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pillar | amod |
| 4 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falling | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 falling | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falling | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 falling | mark |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ground | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 pieces | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pieces | nummod |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broken | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a large marble pillar | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | past · perfect · passive | a large marble pillar not said here | into three pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into piece=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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