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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 19

And turning to a soldier who came running up, waving his sword, he touched him with the magic lance, and he fell dead on the spot.

Who acts: Peronnik · What happens: turn, come, run up, wave, touch, fall · To what, where: soldier, sword, trumpeter, spot

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik), 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

ccadvclcasedetoblnsubjadvclcompound:prtpunctconjnmod:possobjpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctccnsubjconjxcompcasedetoblpunctrootAndCCONJturningVERBtoADPaDETsoldierNOUNwhoPRONcameVERBrunningVERBupADP,PUNCTwavingVERBhisPRONswordNOUN,PUNCThePRONtouchedVERBhimPRONwithADPtheDETmagicADJlanceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONfellVERBdeadADJonADPtheDETspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_2 turningcc
2turningturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 cameadvcl
3totoADP_5 soldiercase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 soldierdet
5soldiersoldierNOUNNumber=Sing2 turningobl
6whowhoPRONPronType=Rel7 camensubj
7camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 cameadvcl
9upupADP_8 runningcompound:prt
10,,PUNCT_11 wavingpunct
11wavingwaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 runningconj
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 swordnmod:poss
13swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing11 wavingobj
14,,PUNCT_16 touchedpunct
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 touchednsubj
16touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 cameconj
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 touchedobj
18withwithADP_21 lancecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 lancedet
20magicmagicADJDegree=Pos21 lanceamod
21lancelanceNOUNNumber=Sing16 touchedobl
22,,PUNCT_25 fellpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 fellcc
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 fellnsubj
25fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 cameconj
26deaddeadADJDegree=Pos25 fellxcomp
27ononADP_29 spotcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 spotdet
29spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing25 fellobl
30..PUNCT_7 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turngerunda soldiervn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to soldier=Trajectory
2comepastvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3run upgerundvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4wavegerundPeronnik's swordvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
5touchpastPeronniktrumpeterwith the magic lancevn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with lance=Instrument
6fallpastPeronnikthe spotdead propertyvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location

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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