The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 83

To his surprise the bar gave way at once, and he found he could break it into a thousand pieces.

Who acts: bar, Girouette · What happens: give, find, break, surprise · To what, where: way, surprise, thousand pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bar, Girouette), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 surprise	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 surprise	nmod:poss
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bar	det
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 gave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 break	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 break	aux
16	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 break	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thousand	det
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pieces	nummod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 break	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the bar	way	Girouette's surprise		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme to surprise=Recipient at once=Asset
2	find	past	Girouette				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	break	could	Girouette	way		into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result
4	surprise		Girouette				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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