The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 17

Then drinking a deep draught from it, fell back dead.

What happens: drink, fall back · To what, where: deep draught, draught

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 drinking	advmod
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fell	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 draught	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 draught	amod
5	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drinking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		a deep draught		draught	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
2	fall back	past						dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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