More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 99

He goes to walk over it, and no sooner did he put his foot on it, than he fell down and broke his leg.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, walk, put, fall down, break · To what, where: handkerchief, foot, leg

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 walk	mark
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sooner	det
10	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 put	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foot	nmod:poss
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 fell	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fell	nsubj
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 put	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 fell	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 broke	cc
24	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fell	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 leg	nmod:poss
26	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broke	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Prince				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		handkerchief		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
3	put	past · do-support	Prince	Prince's foot	handkerchief	soon property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on it=Destination
4	fall down	past	Prince			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break	past	Prince not said here	Prince's leg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient

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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