The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 6

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

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

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	past	man not said here		man's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location

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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