The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 104

Once, while he was taking a journey, a foot-bridge gave way under him; once he was attacked by armed robbers; a rock rolled down upon him in a mountain pass; a heavy stone coping fell from a roof at his feet in a narrow city alley.

Who acts: Nur, foot bridge, armed robbers, heavy stone · What happens: take, give, attack, roll down, cope, fall · To what, where: journey, way, Nur, rock, mountain pass, roof

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur, foot bridge, armed robbers, heavy stone), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 taking	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taking	aux
6	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 gave	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 journey	det
8	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taking	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bridge	det
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bridge	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 foot	punct
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 attacked	punct
19	once	once	SCONJ	_	22 attacked	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 attacked	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 attacked	aux:pass
22	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gave	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 robbers	case
24	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 robbers	amod
25	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attacked	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 rolled	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rock	det
28	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	nsubj:pass
29	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gave	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 rolled	compound:prt
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rolled	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 pass	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pass	det
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pass	compound
36	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rolled	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stone	det
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stone	amod
40	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	nsubj
41	coping	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 stone	acl
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 roof	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 roof	det
45	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 feet	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 feet	nmod:poss
48	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fell	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 alley	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 alley	det
51	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 alley	amod
52	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 alley	compound
53	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	Nur	a journey			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
2	give	past	a foot bridge	way		under Nur; once property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	attack	past · passive	armed robbers	Nur			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	roll down	participle · passive		a rock	a mountain pass	upon Nur	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon he=Source in pass=Trajectory
5	cope	gerund	a heavy stone not said here				vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fall	past	a heavy stone		a roof	at Nur's feet; in a narrow city alley	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=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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