The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92

They sprang back hurriedly, quite forgetting where they stood, and all fell down the bank, each tumbling over the other, till they rolled into the pool that lay below.

Who acts: people, each, pool · What happens: spring back, forget, stand, fall down, tumble, roll · To what, where: bank, other, pool

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, each, pool), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 sprang	advmod
4	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	2 sprang	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forgetting	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 forgetting	advmod
7	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sprang	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 stood	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgetting	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fell	advmod
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 bank	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bank	det
17	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tumbling	punct
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 tumbling	nsubj
20	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tumbling	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rolled	punct
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 rolled	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rolled	nsubj
27	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fell	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 pool	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pool	det
30	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rolled	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pool	acl:relcl
33	below	below	ADV	_	32 lay	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring back	past	people			hurriedly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	gerund	people not said here				tree rules
3	stand	past	people				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall down	past		the bank			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bank=Result
5	tumble	gerund	each		the other		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over other=Initial_Location
6	roll	past	people		the pool		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination
7	lie	past	the pool			below property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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