The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 58

As the king stepped on board the boat one of the sandals of the white slipper, which had got loose, caught in a nail that was sticking out, and caused the king to stumble.

Who acts: white slipper, nail · What happens: step, get, catch, stick out, cause, stumble · To what, where: king, boat, nail

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 (white slipper, nail), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 king	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caused	obl
4	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 king	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 boat	case
6	board	board	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 boat	flat
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sandals	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sandals	det
12	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 slipper	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 slipper	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slipper	amod
16	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sandals	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 got	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	aux
20	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 slipper	acl:relcl
21	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 got	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caught	punct
23	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 loose	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 nail	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 nail	det
26	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sticking	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sticking	aux
29	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 nail	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 sticking	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 caused	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 caused	cc
33	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caused	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 stumble	mark
37	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 king	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	participle		the king not said here	the boat		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Trajectory
2	get	past · perfect	the white slipper			loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	catch	participle	the white slipper not said here		a nail		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stick out	past · progressive	a nail				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	cause	past		the king		as the king	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition king=Patient
6	stumble	to-infinitive		the king not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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