The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 12

And what did happen was, that when the jackal was lying covered up, under a little hill, the hedgehog set a great stone rolling, which crushed him to death.

Who acts: hedgehog, little hill · What happens: be, cover up, set, roll, crush · To what, where: little hill, jackal, great stone, hedgehog

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (hedgehog, little hill), 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	_	4 happen	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 covered	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 covered	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jackal	det
10	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
12	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 covered	aux:pass
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happen	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 covered	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hill	punct
16	under	under	ADP	_	19 hill	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hill	amod
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hedgehog	det
22	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hill	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stone	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stone	amod
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obj
27	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 set	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crushed	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 crushed	nsubj
30	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hill	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 crushed	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crushed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support			a little hill	happen property	tree rules
2	cover up	past · passive		the jackal			tree rules
3	set	past	the hedgehog	a great stone			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient stone=Result
4	roll	gerund	the hedgehog not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crush	past	a little hill	hedgehog		to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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