Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 26
One tower after another fell, till at last only one remained standing on the hill where the castle had formerly been.
Who acts: One tower, one · What happens: fall, remain, stand · To what, where: last, hill
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 (One tower, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 tower | nummod |
| 2 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 another | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 tower | nmod |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 remained | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remained | obl |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 remained | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 been | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 been | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 been | aux |
| 21 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 22 been | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 hill | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | One tower after another | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | one | last | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | one not said here | the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
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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