The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 6

But, luckily, just at that moment he stepped upon a loose stone, stumbled, and fell flat on the ground, where he lay at his full length.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: step, stumble, fall, lie · To what, where: loose stone, ground, full length

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 stepped	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 luckily	punct
3	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	10 stepped	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stepped	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 stepped	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stepped	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stepped	nsubj
10	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 stone	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
13	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stone	amod
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stepped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stumbled	punct
16	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stone	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stepped	conj
20	flat	flat	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 lay	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 length	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 length	nmod:poss
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 length	amod
31	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	Jack	a loose stone	moment	luckily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Trajectory
2	stumble	participle	Jack not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	Jack not said here	the ground		flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
4	lie	past	Jack	Jack's full length			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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