The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 87

The prince was running at full speed after his dog when he almost fell over something that looked like a log of wood, which was lying in his path.

Who acts: prince, wood · What happens: run, fall, look, lie · To what, where: full speed, something, path

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wood), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 running	aux
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 speed	case
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 speed	amod
7	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dog	nmod:poss
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fell	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 running	advcl
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 something	case
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 fell	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 something	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 log	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 log	det
21	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wood	case
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 log	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lying	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lying	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lying	aux
27	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 wood	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 path	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 path	nmod:poss
30	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	the prince	full speed	after prince's dog		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory
2	fall	past	prince	something		almost property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over something=Location
3	look	past				like a log of wood	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	lie	past · progressive	wood	prince's path			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=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 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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