Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 63
Another broken-down staircase led from the gallery, and two Russian sailors running down it almost upset the poor boy.
Who acts: two Russian sailors, broken down staircase · What happens: break, lead, run down, upset · To what, where: broken down staircase, gallery, staircase, poor boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Russian sailors, broken down staircase), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 staircase | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 staircase | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 broken | punct |
| 4 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 staircase | amod |
| 5 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 upset | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 staircase | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 gallery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gallery | det |
| 9 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailors | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sailors | cc |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sailors | nummod |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sailors | amod |
| 14 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 upset | nsubj |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sailors | acl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 running | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 running | obl |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 upset | advmod |
| 19 | upset | upset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boy | amod |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 upset | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 upset | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | lead | participle | another broken down staircase not said here | the gallery | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from gallery=Destination | ||||
| 3 | run down | gerund | two Russian sailors not said here | staircase | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | upset | past | another broken down staircase | the poor boy | almost property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boy=Experiencer |
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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