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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 80

But one day an accident happened to him, and he was struck on the head by a falling bough, so that he fell from his horse and lay dead upon the ground.

Who acts: accident, falling bough, king · What happens: happen, strike, fall, lay · To what, where: king, ground

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident, falling bough, king), 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

ccnummodobl:unmarkeddetnsubjcaseoblpunctccnsubjaux:passconjcasedetoblcasedetamodoblpunctmarkfixednsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblccconjxcompcasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJoneNUMdayNOUNanDETaccidentNOUNhappenedVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONwasAUXstruckVERBonADPtheDETheadNOUNbyADPaDETfallingVERBboughNOUN,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONfellVERBfromADPhisPRONhorseNOUNandCCONJlayVERBdeadADJuponADPtheDETgroundNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 happenedcc
2oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 daynummod
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing6 happenedobl:unmarked
4anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 accidentdet
5accidentaccidentNOUNNumber=Sing6 happenednsubj
6happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7totoADP_8 himcase
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 happenedobl
9,,PUNCT_13 struckpunct
10andandCCONJ_13 struckcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 strucknsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 struckaux:pass
13struckstrikeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 happenedconj
14ononADP_16 headcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 headdet
16headheadNOUNNumber=Sing13 struckobl
17bybyADP_20 boughcase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 boughdet
19fallingfallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 boughamod
20boughboughNOUNNumber=Sing13 struckobl
21,,PUNCT_25 fellpunct
22sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ25 fellmark
23thatthatSCONJ_22 sofixed
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 fellnsubj
25fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 struckparataxis
26fromfromADP_28 horsecase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 horsenmod:poss
28horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing25 fellobl
29andandCCONJ_30 laycc
30laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf25 fellconj
31deaddeadADJDegree=Pos30 layxcomp
32uponuponADP_34 groundcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 grounddet
34groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing30 layobl
35..PUNCT_6 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpasta accidentkingdayvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2strikepast · passivea falling boughkingon the headvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on head=Patient
3fallgerundvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fallpastkingfrom king's horsevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location
5layinfinitiveking not said herethe grounddead propertyvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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