The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 32

‘How did you kill him?’ asked the judge, turning to the accused, and the poor man told how he had leaped from the wall, not knowing that anyone was beneath.

Who acts: you, poor man, man, anyone · What happens: kill, ask, turn, accuse, tell, leap · To what, where: man, judge, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, poor man, man, anyone), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kill	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 judge	det
11	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turning	punct
13	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	advcl
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 accused	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 accused	det
16	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 turning	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 leaped	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leaped	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 leaped	aux
26	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	ccomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 wall	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knowing	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 knowing	advmod
32	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 leaped	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 beneath	mark
34	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 beneath	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 beneath	cop
36	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	32 knowing	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past · do-support	you	man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		the judge			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent judge=Recipient clause=Topic
3	turn	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	accuse	participle					vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	the poor man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	leap	past · perfect	man		the wall		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory
7	not know	gerund	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	anyone			beneath property	tree rules

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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