The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 69

Crick! crack!’ and the wedding garments fell to the ground, to the great confusion of the wearer.

Who acts: Crick · What happens: garment, fall, confuse · To what, where: ground, wearer

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 (Crick), 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	Crick	crick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 garments	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Crick	punct
3	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crick	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Crick	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Crick	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wedding	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crick	conj
9	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 garments	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 confusion	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 confusion	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 confusion	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 confusion	amod
18	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 wearer	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wearer	det
21	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 confusion	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 garments	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	garment	present	Crick and crack and the wedding				tree rules
2	fall	past	Crick and crack and the wedding not said here		the ground	to the great confusion of the wearer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location to confusion=Destination
3	confuse			the wearer			nom confusion «state 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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