The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 110

The dog pounced upon it, and gulped it down greedily, and was just turning to go, when it staggered, fell, rolled over, and died.

Who acts: dog, lump · What happens: pounce, gulp down, turn, go, stagger, fall · To what, where: lump

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 (dog, lump), 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 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pounced	nsubj
3	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pounced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gulped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gulped	cc
8	gulped	gulp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pounced	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gulped	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 gulped	compound:prt
11	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	8 gulped	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turning	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turning	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turning	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 turning	advmod
16	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gulped	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turning	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 staggered	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 staggered	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 staggered	nsubj
22	staggered	stagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turning	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 staggered	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rolled	punct
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fell	parataxis
27	over	over	ADV	_	26 rolled	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 died	cc
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pounced	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pounced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	the dog		lump		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory
2	gulp down	past	the dog not said here	lump		greedily property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	turn	past · progressive					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stagger	past	lump				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
6	fall	past	lump not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	roll over	participle				over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	die	past	the dog not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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