Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 156
He fell headlong from the top of that tall tower, and not a bone in his tender frame but was crushed upon the rocks beneath.
Who acts: boy · What happens: fall, crush · To what, where: bone, top
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 tower | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tower | amod |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bone | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bone | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bone | det |
| 15 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 frame | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 frame | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 frame | amod |
| 19 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bone | nmod |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 crushed | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crushed | aux:pass |
| 22 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 rocks | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rocks | det |
| 25 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 crushed | obl |
| 26 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 22 crushed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | boy | a bone in boy's tender frame | the top of that tall tower | headlong property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from top=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | crush | past · passive | boy not said here | upon the rocks; beneath property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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