The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 91

But, meanwhile, Patto had slipped from the hook and concealed himself behind the door, so that, as Stalo stepped in, his prisoner raised the axe, and with one blow the ogre's head was rolling on the ground.

Who acts: Patto, Stalo, prisoner, head · What happens: slip, conceal, step in, raise, roll · To what, where: Patto, door, axe, ground

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 (Patto, Stalo, prisoner, head), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 slipped	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slipped	punct
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 slipped	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meanwhile	punct
5	Patto	Patto	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 slipped	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slipped	aux
7	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hook	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hook	det
10	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slipped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 concealed	cc
12	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slipped	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 concealed	obj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 concealed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 concealed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stepped	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stepped	mark
22	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stepped	nsubj
23	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 concealed	parataxis
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 stepped	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 raised	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 prisoner	nmod:poss
27	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raised	nsubj
28	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stepped	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 axe	det
30	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 raised	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rolling	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rolling	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 blow	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 blow	nummod
35	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rolling	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ogre	det
37	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 head	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 ogre	case
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rolling	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 rolling	aux
41	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 raised	advcl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rolling	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip	past · perfect	Patto			from the hook; meanwhile property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hook=Co-Patient
2	conceal	past	Patto not said here	Patto	the door		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind door=Location
3	step in	past	Stalo				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	raise	past	Patto's prisoner	the axe			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5	roll	past · progressive	the ogre's head		the ground	with one blow	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory

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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