The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 110

In an instant the mirror lay at his feet broken into a thousand pieces, but as every piece reflected part of himself, the dragon thought that he too had been smashed into atoms.

Who acts: mirror, piece, dragon · What happens: lie, break, reflect, think, smash · To what, where: instant, feet, thousand pieces, part, dragon, atoms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirror, piece, dragon), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mirror	det
5	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obl
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feet	acl
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 pieces	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thousand	det
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pieces	nummod
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broken	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 reflected	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 reflected	mark
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 piece	det
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reflected	nsubj
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reflected	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 part	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dragon	det
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reflected	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 smashed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 smashed	nsubj
30	too	too	ADV	_	33 smashed	advmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 smashed	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 smashed	aux:pass
33	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 thought	ccomp
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 atoms	case
35	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 smashed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the mirror		a instant	at dragon's feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location
2	break	participle		dragon's feet not said here		into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result
3	reflect	past	every piece	part of dragon			tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	the dragon				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	smash	past · perfect · passive		dragon	atoms		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into atom=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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