English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 86
And the harp snapped and broke, and never sang more.
Who acts: harp · What happens: snap, break, not sing · To what, where: more
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harp), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 snapped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 harp | det |
| 3 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snapped | nsubj |
| 4 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 broke | cc |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snapped | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 sang | advmod |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snapped | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 sang | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | past | the harp | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | past | the harp not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not sing speech: express | past | the harp not said here | more | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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