The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 12

And when she was asleep, the old man shook his head over her, and let her fall into the cellar.

Who acts: girl, old man · What happens: be, shake, let, fall · To what, where: head, girl, cellar

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (girl, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 shook	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 asleep	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asleep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shook	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shook	nsubj
10	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shook	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shook	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shook	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cellar	det
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl		asleep property	tree rules
2	shake	past	the old man	man's head	over girl	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over she=Trajectory
3	let	infinitive	the old man not said here	girl		tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	girl not said here		into the cellar result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cellar=Result

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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