The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 6

And when she wanted to turn her toes out she tripped and fell on her nose.

Who acts: Crab · What happens: want, turn, trip, fall · To what, where: toes, nose

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab), 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	_	11 tripped	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wanted	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tripped	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 toes	nmod:poss
8	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tripped	nsubj
11	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tripped	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 nose	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nose	nmod:poss
16	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tripped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Crab			out property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	Crab not said here	Crab's toes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
3	trip	past	Crab				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	Crab not said here		Crab's nose		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nose=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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