The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 27

The old man that you see here set traps about his hen-house, thinking to catch me but he fell into his own trap, and broke his own neck.

Who acts: old man, marten · What happens: see, think, catch, fall, break · To what, where: that, me, own trap, own neck

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 (old man, marten), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 see	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 see	advmod
8	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 traps	amod
9	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 house	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 house	nmod:poss
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 hen	punct
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 traps	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 see	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 catch	mark
18	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thinking	advcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 catch	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 fell	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 trap	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 trap	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trap	amod
26	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broke	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 broke	cc
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neck	amod
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	the old man	that	here		tree rules
2	think speech: other	gerund	the old man not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	me			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	fall	past	marten			into marten's own trap result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trap=Result
5	break	past	marten not said here	marten's own neck			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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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