The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 12

The wall was high, and he flew rapidly through the air, but it was not the ground he touched, only the body of the sick man, who rolled over and died without a groan.

Who acts: wall, man, sick man · What happens: be, fly, not be, touch, roll over, die · To what, where: air, ground

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall, man, sick man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	conj
9	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ground	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ground	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ground	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ground	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 ground	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touched	nsubj
21	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ground	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 body	punct
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 body	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 body	det
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 man	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 body	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 rolled	nsubj
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 man	acl:relcl
33	over	over	ADV	_	32 rolled	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rolled	conj
36	without	without	ADP	_	38 groan	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 groan	det
38	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wall			high property	tree rules
2	fly	past	man		the air	rapidly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
3	not is a	past	wall	the ground			tree rules
4	touch	past	man	the ground not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
5	roll over	past	the sick man			over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die	past	the sick man not said here			without a groan	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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