The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 102
As soon as he turned the handle, a shower of small stones fell on his powdered wig and his silk coat, and down he fell under them.
Who acts: king, shower · What happens: turn, fall, powder · To what, where: handle, powdered wig
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, shower), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 turned | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 turned | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 handle | det |
| 7 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shower | det |
| 10 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shower | nmod |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 wig | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wig | nmod:poss |
| 17 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wig | amod |
| 18 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 coat | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 coat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coat | compound |
| 22 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wig | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 fell | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | king | the handle | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | a shower of small stones | king's powdered wig and king's silk coat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wig=Location | ||||
| 3 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fall | past | king | under horses = horse; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under they=Location |
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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