Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 72

I followed him, but instead of falling on the third storey where he is now lying, I fell into the second.

Who acts: I, rat · What happens: follow, fall, lie · To what, where: rat, third storey

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rat), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 falling	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fell	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 storey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storey	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 storey	amod
12	storey	storey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lying	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lying	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lying	aux
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lying	advmod
17	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 storey	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 falling	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 second	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 second	det
23	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 fell	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	I	rat				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fall	gerund	I not said here		the third storey			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on storey=Location
3	lie	present · progressive	rat			now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	I				into the second result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into second=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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