The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 75

But instead of falling to the ground again, the stone stuck to the soft wax.

What happens: fall, stick · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 falling	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 falling	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 falling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stone	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 stone	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 wax	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wax	det
15	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wax	amod
16	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund		the stone			again	to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
2	stick	participle		the stone not said here				to the soft wax	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wax=Co-Patient

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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