The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 102

So the old man rose and went, and strapped the meat on his shoulder; but as he was crossing the ford the strap broke and the pack fell into the river.

Who acts: old man, man, pack · What happens: rise, go, strap, cross, break, fall · To what, where: meat, shoulder, ford, river

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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, man, pack), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nsubj
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strapped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strapped	cc
10	strapped	strap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meat	det
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strapped	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 shoulder	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoulder	nmod:poss
15	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strapped	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 broke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 broke	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 crossing	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 crossing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 crossing	aux
21	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 broke	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ford	det
23	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crossing	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 strap	det
25	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crossing	obj
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fell	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pack	det
29	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 broke	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 river	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 river	det
33	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the old man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the old man not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strap	past	the old man not said here	the meat	man's shoulder		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient on shoulder=Location
4	cross	past · progressive	man	the ford			tree rules
5	break	past	the old man not said here				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	fall	past	the pack			into the river result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=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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