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title: As for the hill-man he intended to be present; but whilst he was wal… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the hill-man he intended to be present; but whilst he was walking along a street which led to the palace a loose stone fell on his head and killed him. Who acts: wedding, loose stone. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 137

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As for the hill-man he intended to be present; but whilst he was walking along a street which led to the palace a loose stone fell on his head and killed him.

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**Who acts:** wedding, loose stone · **What happens:** intend, be, walk, lead, fall, kill · **To what, where:** street, head, wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, loose stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:39:137
# text = As for the hill-man he intended to be present; but whilst he was walking along a street which led to the palace a loose stone fell on his head and killed him.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
22	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past | wedding |  |  |  |  | as the hill man | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as man=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wedding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | past · progressive | wedding |  |  | a street |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme along street=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lead** | past | wedding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the palace | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to palace=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | past | a loose stone |  |  | wedding's head |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 6 | **kill** | past | a loose stone *not said here* | wedding |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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