The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 34

The princess turned round with a start, and let go her handkerchief, and the Shifty Lad fell, and struck his head on a stone, and died in an instant.

Who acts: princess, Shifty Lad · What happens: turn round, let, go, fall, strike, die · To what, where: handkerchief, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Shifty Lad), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 start	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 start	det
7	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 handkerchief	nmod:poss
13	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lad	det
17	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Lad	amod
18	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 stone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stone	det
27	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 died	cc
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 struck	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 instant	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 instant	det
33	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 died	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the princess		with a start; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	the princess not said here			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the princess not said here	princess's handkerchief		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location handkerchief=Theme
4	fall	past	the Shifty Lad			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	strike	past		Lad's head	on a stone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on stone=Patient
6	die	past			in a instant	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/34/