The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 108

Another second and he would have fallen half over it, when the queen sprang forward, seized him in her arms, and flung him into the castle.

Who acts: second, queen · What happens: fall, spring, seize, fling · To what, where: direction, wind, arms, castle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second, queen), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 second	det
2	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fallen	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fallen	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 fallen	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fallen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sprang	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 sprang	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sprang	nsubj
15	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	parataxis
16	forward	forward	ADV	_	15 sprang	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sprang	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seized	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flung	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flung	cc
25	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sprang	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flung	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	would · perfect	another second		direction	half property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location
2	spring	past	the queen			forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize	past	the queen not said here	wind	queen's arms		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	fling	past	the queen not said here	wind	the castle		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=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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