More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 52
However, down he fell on his knee-bones by that stone, and hearkened again.
Who acts: One · What happens: fall, hearken · To what, where: knee bones
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (One), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 3 down | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bones | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bones | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 knee | punct |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hearkened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hearkened | cc |
| 16 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 hearkened | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | One | One's knee bones | by that stone; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bone=Location | |||
| 2 | hearken | past | One not said here | again | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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