The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 140

So Father Lawrence fell down on his knees before the angel and thanked him, and the following Sunday he preached a farewell sermon, and gave out that an angel had come down into the large maple tree in his garden, and had announced to him that, because of his righteousness, he should be taken up alive into heaven, and as he thus preached and told them this everyone in the church, old or young, wept.

Who acts: Father, following Sunday, angel · What happens: fall down, thank, follow, preach, give out, come down · To what, where: knees, father, farewell sermon, large maple tree, angel, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, following Sunday, angel), 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 fell	advmod
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
3	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Father	flat
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 knees	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knees	nmod:poss
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 angel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 angel	det
11	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thanked	cc
13	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thanked	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 preached	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 preached	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sunday	det
18	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 Sunday	amod
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 preached	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 preached	nsubj
21	preached	preach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sermon	det
23	farewell	farewell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sermon	amod
24	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 preached	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 gave	compound:prt
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 angel	det
31	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 gave	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 tree	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tree	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tree	amod
38	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	compound
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 garden	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 garden	nmod:poss
42	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tree	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 announced	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 announced	cc
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 announced	aux
46	announced	announce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fell	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 announced	obl
49	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 him	nmod:unmarked
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 righteousness	punct
51	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	54 righteousness	case
52	of	of	ADP	_	51 because	fixed
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 righteousness	nmod:poss
54	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 announced	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 taken	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 taken	nsubj
57	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 taken	aux
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 taken	aux:pass
59	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	conj
60	up	up	ADP	_	59 taken	compound:prt
61	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 taken	xcomp
62	into	into	ADP	_	63 heaven	case
63	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 taken	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 preached	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 preached	cc
66	as	as	SCONJ	_	69 preached	mark
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 preached	nsubj
68	thus	thus	ADV	_	69 preached	advmod
69	preached	preach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 told	cc
71	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
72	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 told	iobj
73	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	74 everyone	det
74	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	71 told	obj
75	in	in	ADP	_	77 church	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 church	det
77	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 everyone	nmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 old	punct
79	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 everyone	appos
80	or	or	CCONJ	_	81 young	cc
81	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 old	conj
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 wept	punct
83	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 told	conj
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	Father			father's knees	before the angel	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
2	thank speech: thank	past	Father not said here		father				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	preach speech: other	past	the following Sunday	a farewell sermon					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sermon=Topic
5	give out	past	Father not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	come down	past · perfect	a angel			the large maple tree in angel's garden		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial_Location
7	announce speech: other	past · perfect	Father not said here		angel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
8	take up	should · passive		angel		heaven		alive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into heaven=Destination
9	preach speech: other	past	angel					thus property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	tell speech: assert	past	Father not said here	everyone	knees = knee	the church			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everyone=Topic
11	weep	past	Father not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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