The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 87

A stumble over a stone recalled Andras to himself, and looking up he beheld the mass of wreckage. '

Who acts: stumble · What happens: recall, look up, behold · To what, where: Andras, stumble, mass

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stumble), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stumble	det
2	stumble	stumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recalled	nsubj
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stumble	nmod
6	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 recalled	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 recalled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beheld	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beheld	cc
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 beheld	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 looking	compound:prt
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beheld	nsubj
15	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recalled	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mass	det
17	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beheld	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wreckage	case
19	wreckage	wreckage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mass	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recalled	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 recalled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	recall	past	a stumble over a stone	Andras	stumble	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent andras=Theme to himself=Destination
2	look up	gerund	stumble not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	behold	past	stumble	the mass of wreckage		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus

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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