The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 24
One day, rushing downhill as fast as he could go, he put his foot into a hole and fell, rolling into a rocky pit of brambles.
Who acts: One day, Balancin · What happens: rush, go, put, fall, roll · To what, where: foot, hole, rocky pit
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Balancin), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushing | punct |
| 4 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 5 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rushing | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fast | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hole | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rolling | punct |
| 23 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fell | advcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 pit | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pit | det |
| 26 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pit | amod |
| 27 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rolling | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 brambles | case |
| 29 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pit | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | One day not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | could | Balancin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Balancin | Balancin's foot | a hole | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | ||
| 4 | fall | past | Balancin not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | roll | gerund | Balancin not said here | a rocky pit of brambles | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pit=Destination |
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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