The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 98

The robbers were lying all ready, expecting every moment to see their victims coming round the corner a few yards away, when a shower of huge stones fell on their heads, killing half the band.

Who acts: robbers, victims, shower · What happens: lie, expect, see, come, fall, kill · To what, where: victims, corner, heads, band

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers, victims, shower), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lying	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 expecting	punct
8	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lying	conj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 expecting	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 expecting	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 victims	nmod:poss
14	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 see	xcomp
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 corner	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 yards	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 yards	amod
21	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 away	obl:unmarked
22	away	away	ADV	_	18 corner	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 fell	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 shower	det
26	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 stones	case
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stones	amod
29	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shower	nmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 heads	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fell	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 killing	punct
35	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 fell	advcl
36	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	38 band	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 band	det
38	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 killing	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the robbers				ready property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	expect	gerund	the robbers not said here			moment		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here	robbers's victims				tree rules
4	come	gerund	robbers's victims not said here		the corner			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location
5	fall	past	a shower of huge stones		stones's heads			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
6	kill	gerund	a shower of huge stones not said here	half band				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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