The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 22

The man laid all sorts of traps to catch the thief, but instead of capturing the foe, it happened that one day he got caught himself, and falling down, struck his head against a stone, and was killed.

Who acts: man, it, falling · What happens: lay, catch, capture, happen, fall down, strike · To what, where: sorts, thief, foe, marten, head, traps

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it, falling), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sorts	det
5	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 traps	case
7	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorts	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 catch	mark
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thief	det
11	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happened	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 happened	cc
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 capturing	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	capturing	capture	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 happened	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 foe	det
18	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 capturing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 capturing	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 happened	nsubj
21	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 caught	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caught	obl:unmarked
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 caught	nsubj:pass
26	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caught	aux:pass
27	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 happened	advcl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 caught	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 struck	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 struck	cc
31	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 struck	csubj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 falling	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 falling	punct
34	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obj
37	against	against	ADP	_	39 stone	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 stone	det
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 struck	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 killed	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 killed	cc
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 killed	aux:pass
43	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 struck	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the man	all sorts of traps			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Result
2	catch	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the thief			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme
3	capture	gerund		the foe			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme
4	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	past · passive		marten	day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary himself=Theme
6	fall down	gerund				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	strike	past	falling	marten's head		against a stone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against stone=Patient
8	kill	past · passive	falling not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
9	sort			traps			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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