Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 22

Mortally wounded with several bayonet thrusts, he sank down.

Who acts: boy · What happens: sink down

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Mortally	mortally	ADV	_	2 wounded	advmod
2	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 thrusts	case
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thrusts	amod
5	bayonet	bayonet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thrusts	compound
6	thrusts	thrust	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wounded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sank	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sank	nsubj
9	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wounded	parataxis
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 sank	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	boy					down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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