The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 13

With a blow from the king, the sheep fell dead, and they opened its body, only to be blinded by a rush of wings as the duck flew past.

Who acts: sheep, king, rush, duck · What happens: fall, open, blind, fly, rush · To what, where: body, wings

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, king, rush, duck), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 blow	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blow	det
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blow	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blow	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fell	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 opened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 opened	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 opened	nsubj
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opened	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blinded	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 blinded	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	22 blinded	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 blinded	aux:pass
22	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fell	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 rush	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rush	det
25	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blinded	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 wings	case
27	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rush	nmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 flew	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 duck	det
30	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 blinded	advcl
32	past	past	ADV	_	31 flew	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the sheep		with a blow from the king; dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past	king	blow's body		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
3	blind	to-infinitive · passive	a rush of wings			tree rules
4	fly	past	the duck		past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush			wings		nom rush «act transitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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