The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 104

But the table fell to pieces as he touched it, in the cornet there remained only a few fragments of leathern belts which the rats had gnawed, and in the bag nothing but broken bits of stone.

Who acts: table, army, cornet · What happens: fall, touch, remain, gnaw, break · To what, where: nothing, power, few fragments, leathern belts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table, army, cornet), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 touched	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cornet	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cornet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cornet	det
14	cornet	cornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 cornet	advmod
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 cornet	acl
17	only	only	ADV	_	20 fragments	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fragments	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fragments	amod
20	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remained	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 belts	case
22	leathern	leathern	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 belts	compound
23	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fragments	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gnawed	nsubj:pass
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rats	det
26	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gnawed	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gnawed	aux
28	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 belts	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nothing	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 nothing	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nothing	det
33	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nothing	compound
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 fell	obl
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 bits	cc
36	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 bits	amod
37	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 nothing	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 stone	case
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bits	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the table		nothing	to pieces	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in nothing=Location
2	touch	past	army	power			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	remain	participle	the cornet not said here	a few fragments of leathern belts			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gnaw	past · perfect · passive		leathern belts			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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