The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 137

As for the hill-man he intended to be present; but whilst he was walking along a street which led to the palace a loose stone fell on his head and killed him.

Who acts: wedding, loose stone · What happens: intend, be, walk, lead, fall, kill · To what, where: street, head, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, loose stone), 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	ExtPos=ADP	6 man	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hill	punct
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 intended	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 intended	nsubj
8	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 present	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 present	cop
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 intended	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 led	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 led	cc
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	17 walking	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walking	aux
17	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 led	advcl
18	along	along	ADP	_	20 street	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 street	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walking	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 walking	obj
22	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 intended	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 palace	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 palace	det
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 led	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stone	det
27	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stone	amod
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 led	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 killed	cc
34	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fell	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 killed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	past	wedding			as the hill man	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as man=Attribute
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	wedding not said here			present property	tree rules
3	walk	past · progressive	wedding		a street		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme along street=Trajectory
4	lead	past	wedding not said here			to the palace	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to palace=Patient
5	fall	past	a loose stone		wedding's head		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
6	kill	past	a loose stone not said here	wedding			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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