The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 102

And he went outside and pulled at the chain, but he could not move it, and fell on to his knees.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, pull, not move, fall on · To what, where: chain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pulled	cc
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 chain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chain	det
9	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 move	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 move	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 move	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 move	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 move	advmod
15	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 move	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 knees	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 knees	nmod:poss
23	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	participle	man not said here		at the chain	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at chain=Theme
3	not move	could	man	chain		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	fall on	past	man not said here		to man's knees	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to knee=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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