The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 71

So gaily the three husbands knocked down their three wives, who fell dead to the ground.

Who acts: gaily three husbands · What happens: knock down, fall · To what, where: three wives

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gaily three husbands), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 gaily	advmod
2	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 husbands	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husbands	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 husbands	nummod
5	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 husbands	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wives	nmod:poss
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 wives	nummod
10	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knocked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	participle	the gaily three husbands not said here	husbands's three wives					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	fall	past	the gaily three husbands					to the ground; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

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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