The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 125

Then the boy would try his strength with the rest, but he threw the quoit so far that it went beyond what had ever been thrown before, and fell in the crowd, striking a man so that he died.

Who acts: boy, quoit · What happens: try, throw, go, fall, strike, die · To what, where: strength, quoit, crowd, man

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, quoit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 try	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 strength	nmod:poss
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 rest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 try	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 threw	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 quoit	det
16	quoit	quoit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 far	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 threw	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 threw	advcl
22	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 went	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thrown	aux
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 thrown	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 thrown	aux:pass
27	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 what	acl:relcl
28	before	before	ADV	_	27 thrown	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 threw	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 crowd	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crowd	det
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 striking	punct
36	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 fell	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 striking	obj
39	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 died	mark
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 so	fixed
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 died	nsubj
42	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 striking	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	would	the boy	boy's strength		then	with the rest	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent strength=Patient with rest=Theme
2	throw	past	boy	the quoit			far property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quoit=Theme
3	go	past	quoit					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond what=Location
4	throw	past · perfect · passive				ever	before property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	fall	past	boy not said here		the crowd			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in crowd=Location
6	strike	gerund	boy not said here	a man				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Instrument
7	die	past	boy					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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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