The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 30

When he got to the first tree he stopped in front of it, did everything just as he had been told, and, kneeling on the ground with his face to the earth, fell asleep.

Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: get, stop, do, tell, kneel, fall · To what, where: front, everything, Simpleton, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 front	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	conj
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 did	obj
17	just	just	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	aux:pass
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 did	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kneeling	punct
26	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 fell	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kneeling	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 face	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 face	nmod:poss
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kneeling	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 earth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kneeling	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopped	conj
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fell	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Simpleton			to the first tree result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result
2	stop	past	Simpleton		front of front		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	do	past	Simpleton not said here	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Simpleton			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	kneel	gerund			the ground	with Simpleton's face; to the earth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
6	fall	past	Simpleton not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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