The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 41

But one day the looking-glass was dropped, and it broke into a million-billion and more pieces.

Who acts: glass · What happens: look, drop, break · To what, where: looking glass, billion

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 dropped	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 glass	det
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 glass	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 looking	punct
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dropped	aux:pass
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 broke	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 broke	nsubj
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dropped	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 billion	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 million	det
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 billion	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 billion	punct
18	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 broke	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pieces	cc
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 pieces	amod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 broke	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	drop	past · passive		the looking glass	day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	break	past	glass			into billion result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into billion=Result

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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