Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 78

The other woman lifted up hers to defend herself, and the two pots clashed together so violently that they were dashed to pieces, and fire and ashes flew about the room.

Who acts: other woman, two pots, fire · What happens: lift up, defend, clash, dash, fly · To what, where: Felicita, children

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 (other woman, two pots, fire), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
6	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lifted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 defend	mark
8	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lifted	advcl
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 defend	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clashed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 clashed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pots	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pots	nummod
14	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clashed	nsubj
15	clashed	clash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 clashed	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 violently	advmod
18	violently	violently	ADV	_	15 clashed	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dashed	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dashed	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dashed	aux:pass
22	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 clashed	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dashed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flew	cc
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ashes	cc
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fire	conj
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	parataxis
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 room	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 room	det
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	the other woman	Felicita		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme
2	defend	to-infinitive	the other woman not said here	Felicita		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
3	clash	past	the two pots		together, violently property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dash	past · passive		children = child	to pieces result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result
5	fly	past	fire and ashes		about the room	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=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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