The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 41

He drew on one side and listened, and after the basket was drawn up about twenty perches, down came it and the stone like thunder, and the stone was broken into little bits.

Who acts: prince · What happens: draw, listen, draw up, come, break · To what, where: one side, twenty perches, basket, stone, little bits

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 (prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 side	nummod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 listened	cc
7	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drawn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drawn	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 basket	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drawn	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 drawn	aux:pass
14	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 drawn	compound:prt
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 twenty	advmod
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 perches	nummod
18	perches	perch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drawn	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	down	down	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stone	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stone	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	conj
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 thunder	case
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stone	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 broken	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 broken	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stone	det
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broken	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 broken	aux:pass
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 bits	case
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bits	amod
36	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broken	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	prince		one side			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination
2	listen	past	prince not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	draw up	past · passive	prince not said here	twenty perches		after the basket		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: perch=Theme
4	come	past	prince not said here	basket			down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	break	past · passive		the stone			into little bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into bit=Result

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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