The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 39

But the stone happened to fall so luckily that his head went right through the hole in the middle of the mill-stone, so that it sat round his neck like a priest’s collar.

Who acts: stone, head · What happens: happen, fall, go, sit · To what, where: hole

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone, head), 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	_	4 happened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 luckily	advmod
8	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	advcl
13	right	right	ADV	_	16 hole	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 middle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hole	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 stone	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
22	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stone	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 mill	punct
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 middle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 sat	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 sat	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
30	round	round	ADP	_	32 neck	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	37 collar	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 priest	det
35	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 collar	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 priest	case
37	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the stone			tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	the stone not said here		luckily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	Hans's head	the hole in the middle of the mill stone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location
4	sit	past	stone		round Hans's neck; like a priest's collar	vn assuming_position-50 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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