More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 145
The gallows was somewhat old and frail, and down it fell on the horse's neck.
Who acts: gallows, control · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: neck
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gallows, control), 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 gallows | det |
| 2 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 frail | cc |
| 7 | frail | frail | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gallows | old, somewhat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the gallows not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | control | the horse's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=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: «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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