The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 84

This brought it down on its hind legs, and the man went flying over its head into a ditch.

Who acts: This, man · What happens: bring down, go, fly · To what, where: tail, hind legs, head

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 (This, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 brought	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 legs	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
7	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
14	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 went	xcomp
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 ditch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ditch	det
20	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring down	past	This	tail	tail's hind legs		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on leg=Destination
2	go	past	the man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	gerund	the man not said here		tail's head	into a ditch	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=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 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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