The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 103

With these words he fell fainting from his chair, and as the youth, before he knew what he was doing, had squeezed the bird to death, the old man died also.

Who acts: man, old man · What happens: fall, faint, know, do, squeeze, die · To what, where: bird, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fell	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chair	nmod:poss
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fainting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 youth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 youth	cc
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 youth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 doing	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 knew	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 squeezed	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 squeezed	aux
25	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fell	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 squeezed	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 squeezed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 died	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 died	nsubj
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 squeezed	conj
35	also	also	ADV	_	34 died	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	man			with this words; as the youth	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	faint	gerund	man not said here			from man's chair	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from chair=Stimulus
3	know	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	past · progressive	man				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	squeeze	past · perfect		the bird	death		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to death=Trajectory
6	die	past	the old man				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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