The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 32

But he did not know that she had slipped aside into a recess, till suddenly he put his foot on a trap door which gave way under him, and he fell down, down, as many good knights had done before him, and his voice joined the echoes of theirs.

Who acts: man, woman, trap door, voice · What happens: not know, slip, put, give, fall down, do · To what, where: recess, foot, trap door, way, many good knights, echoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman, trap door, voice), 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	_	5 know	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 slipped	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slipped	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	aux
9	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 know	ccomp
10	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 slipped	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 recess	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 recess	det
13	recess	recess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slipped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 put	mark
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 door	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 door	det
23	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	compound
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 door	acl:relcl
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fell	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slipped	parataxis
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 down	punct
36	down	down	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 done	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 done	mark
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 knights	amod
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 knights	amod
41	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 done	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fell	conj
44	before	before	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 done	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 joined	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 joined	cc
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 voice	nmod:poss
49	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 joined	nsubj
50	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fell	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 echoes	det
52	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 joined	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 theirs	case
54	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 echoes	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	slip	past · perfect	woman		a recess		aside property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	put	past	man	man's foot	a trap door		suddenly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on door=Destination
4	give	past	a trap door	way			under man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	fall down	past	man				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past · perfect · passive		many good knights		before man		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	join	past	man's voice	the echoes of echoes				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=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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