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The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 67

She broke off a branch of the birch tree, struck the hearth with it, so that the seeds flew into the pot, and then hastened to the castle.

Who acts: girl, seeds · What happens: break off, strike, fly, hasten · To what, where: branch, hearth, pot, castle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, seeds), 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

nsubjcompound:prtdetobjcasedetcompoundnmodpunctconjdetobjcaseoblpunctmarkmarkdetnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctccadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctrootShePRONbrokeVERBoffADPaDETbranchNOUNofADPtheDETbirchNOUNtreeNOUN,PUNCTstruckVERBtheDEThearthNOUNwithADPitPRON,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJtheDETseedsNOUNflewVERBintoADPtheDETpotNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVhastenedVERBtoADPtheDETcastleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 brokensubj
2brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3offoffADP_2 brokecompound:prt
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 branchdet
5branchbranchNOUNNumber=Sing2 brokeobj
6ofofADP_9 treecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 treedet
8birchbirchNOUNNumber=Sing9 treecompound
9treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing5 branchnmod
10,,PUNCT_11 struckpunct
11struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 brokeconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 hearthdet
13hearthhearthNOUNNumber=Sing11 struckobj
14withwithADP_15 itcase
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 struckobl
16,,PUNCT_21 flewpunct
17sosoSCONJ_21 flewmark
18thatthatSCONJ_21 flewmark
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 seedsdet
20seedsseedNOUNNumber=Plur21 flewnsubj
21flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 struckconj
22intointoADP_24 potcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 potdet
24potpotNOUNNumber=Sing21 flewobl
25,,PUNCT_28 hastenedpunct
26andandCCONJ_28 hastenedcc
27thenthenADVPronType=Dem28 hastenedadvmod
28hastenedhastenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 brokeconj
29totoADP_31 castlecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 castledet
31castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing28 hastenedobl
32..PUNCT_2 brokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1break offpastgirla branch of the birch treevn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient
2strikepastgirl not said herethe hearthwith treevn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hearth=Patient with it=Instrument
3flypastthe seedsinto the pot resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pot=Result
4hastenparticiplegirl not said herethe castlethenvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=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 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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