The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 98

Hanging his head, he went home, but he told no one what had befallen him.

Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: hang, go, tell, befall · To what, where: head, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker), 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	Hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 went	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hanging	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hanging	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 befallen	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 befallen	aux
16	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 one	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 befallen	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	shoemaker not said here	shoemaker's head		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	go	past	shoemaker		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	shoemaker	no one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4	befall	past · perfect · passive		no one		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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/98/