The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 82
Down fell the stone and broke in pieces; the Prince poured forth tears and went away.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: fall, break, pour, go away · To what, where: stone, pieces, tears
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 broke | cc |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broke | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 poured | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | nsubj |
| 12 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | parataxis |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 poured | advmod |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poured | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 poured | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the stone | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stone=Result | ||||
| 2 | break | past | pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | |||||
| 3 | pour | past | the Prince | tears | forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | |||
| 4 | go away | past | the Prince not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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