Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 17
"Crack, crack," down fell something.
Who acts: Crack · What happens: fall · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crack), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 2 | Crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crack | punct |
| 4 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Crack | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crack | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 fell | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Crack and crack | something | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient something=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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