The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 77

At first they heaved with a will, but when the stone was half way up they let it drop suddenly, and it fell to the bottom broken into a hundred pieces.

Who acts: ropes, stone · What happens: heave, be, let, drop, fall, break · To what, where: way, stone, bottom, hundred pieces

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ropes, stone), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 heaved	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heaved	nsubj
4	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 will	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 will	det
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heaved	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 way	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 way	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 way	advmod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heaved	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	18 let	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 drop	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heaved	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 bottom	acl
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 pieces	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hundred	det
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pieces	nummod
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 broken	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	heave	past	ropes = rope			vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the stone	way	half property	tree rules
3	let	present	ropes = rope	stone		tree rules
4	drop	infinitive	stone not said here		suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	stone		to the bottom	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=Theme
6	break	participle		the bottom not said here	into hundred pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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