The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 93

He broke the wheel into a thousand pieces, and then fell fainting on the ground.

Who acts: Burchard · What happens: break, fall, faint · To what, where: wheel, thousand pieces, ground

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burchard), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pieces	nummod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 fell	advmod
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
13	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fell	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fainting	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Burchard	the wheel			into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient into piece=Result
2	fall	past	Burchard not said here			then		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	faint	gerund	Burchard not said here		the ground			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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