The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 45

The helmet suddenly burst with a loud noise, and fell in pieces on the ground; and as they all turned to look they found the floor covered with precious stones which had fallen out of it.

Who acts: helmet, ceremonies, precious stones · What happens: fall, turn, look, find, cover · To what, where: pieces, ceremonies, floor, helmet

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmet, ceremonies, precious stones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 helmet	det
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 burst	advmod
4	burst	burst	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helmet	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 noise	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 noise	det
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noise	amod
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helmet	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fell	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	nsubj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 turned	nsubj:pass
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fell	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 turned	advcl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 look	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 floor	det
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 floor	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 stones	case
31	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stones	amod
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 covered	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 fallen	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fallen	aux
35	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 stones	acl:relcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	38 it	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fallen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the helmet with a loud noise		pieces	on the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location
2	turn	participle · passive		ceremonies = ceremony			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive					tree rules
4	find	past	ceremonies = ceremony	the floor			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Topic
5	cover	participle		the floor not said here		with precious stones	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
6	fall	past · perfect	precious stones		helmet		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=Location

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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