The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 84

Then Ian took a run backwards, and a run forwards, and made a spring; but the door caught one of his feet, and he fell fainting on the stable floor.

Who acts: Ian, door · What happens: take, make, catch, fall, faint · To what, where: run, one, stable floor

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 (Ian, door), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 run	det
5	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 run	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 run	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 run	det
10	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	conj
11	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	10 run	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	nsubj
21	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 caught	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	conj
30	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 fell	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 floor	det
33	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 floor	amod
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fainting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ian	a run		then	backwards property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme
2	make	past	Ian not said here			spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	catch	past	the door	one of Ian's feet				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	fall	past	Ian					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	faint	gerund	Ian not said here		the stable floor			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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