Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 33
Certainly sooner than he expected--for all at once down he came from the top of the press, fell on the ground, and was broken to pieces.
Who acts: play · What happens: expect, come, fall, break · To what, where: all, top, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 sooner | advmod |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 expected | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 5 expected | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expected | nsubj |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 expected | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expected | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 press | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 press | det |
| 19 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 broken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 broken | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 expected | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 broken | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | play | all | soon property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | play | the top of the press | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | play not said here | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | past · passive | play not said here | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to 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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