The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 74

The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen, and by-and-by he noticed that the Stalo had laid a cunning trap in the path to the well, and that anybody who fell over it would roll into the water and drown there.

Who acts: boy, Stalo, anybody · What happens: wait, see, happen, notice, lay, fall · To what, where: clump, cunning trap, path, well, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Stalo, anybody), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 clump	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clump	det
7	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bushes	case
9	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 clump	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 noticed	mark
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 noticed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 noticed	nsubj
23	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 laid	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Stalo	det
26	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 laid	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 laid	aux
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 noticed	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 trap	det
30	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trap	compound
31	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laid	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 path	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 path	det
34	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 trap	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 well	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 well	det
37	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 path	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 roll	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 roll	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 roll	mark
41	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 roll	nsubj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 anybody	acl:relcl
44	over	over	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fell	obl
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 roll	aux
47	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	parataxis
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 water	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 water	det
50	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 roll	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 drown	cc
52	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 roll	conj
53	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 drown	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect	the boy		a clump of bushes	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind clump=Location
2	see	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	notice	past	boy			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lay	past · perfect	the Stalo	a cunning trap	the path to the well	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Theme in path=Destination
6	fall	past			well	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location
7	roll	would	anybody		the water	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
8	drown	infinitive	anybody not said here		there	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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