The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 12

So as they walked back over the cliffs he gave the Princess a great push, hoping she would fall into the sea; but she stepped aside so quickly that he only succeeded in overbalancing himself, and over he went, and sank to the bottom of the sea like a lump of lead, and was never heard of any more.

Who acts: Princess, Fanfaronade, carbuncle · What happens: walk back, give, hope, fall, step, succeed · To what, where: cliffs, great push, Princess, sea, Fanfaronade, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, Fanfaronade, carbuncle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 walked	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 walked	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 cliffs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cliffs	det
8	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 push	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 push	amod
15	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hoping	punct
17	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	advcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fall	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fall	aux
20	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hoping	ccomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fall	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stepped	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stepped	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stepped	nsubj
27	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
28	aside	aside	ADV	_	27 stepped	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 quickly	advmod
30	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	27 stepped	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 succeeded	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 succeeded	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 succeeded	advmod
34	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stepped	advcl
35	in	in	SCONJ	_	36 overbalancing	mark
36	overbalancing	overbalance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 succeeded	advcl
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 overbalancing	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 went	cc
40	over	over	SCONJ	_	42 went	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 went	nsubj
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sank	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sank	cc
45	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	advcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 bottom	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bottom	det
48	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sank	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 sea	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sea	det
51	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bottom	nmod
52	like	like	ADP	_	54 lump	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 lump	det
54	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sank	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 lead	case
56	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 lump	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 heard	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 heard	cc
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 heard	aux:pass
60	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	61 heard	advmod
61	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 walked	conj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 any	case
63	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	61 heard	obj
64	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	63 any	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk back	past	Princess			the cliffs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cliff=Trajectory
2	give	past	Fanfaronade	a great push	the Princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient push=Theme
3	hope	gerund	Fanfaronade not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	fall	would	carbuncle				into the sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
5	step	past	carbuncle				aside, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	succeed	past	Fanfaronade					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	overbalance	gerund	Fanfaronade not said here	Fanfaronade				tree rules
8	go	past	Fanfaronade					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	sink	past	Princess not said here				to the bottom of the sea; like a lump of lead	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	not hear	past · passive	Princess not said here	any				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: any=Stimulus

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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