More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 34

So upstairs he went, and he found a great room with three beds in it; one was a big bed, and one was a middling bed, and one was a little white bed; and he climbed up into the big bed, but it was so hard and lumpy and uncomfortable that he jumped down again at once, and tried the middling bed.

Who acts: Scrapefoot, one · What happens: go, find, be, climb up, jump down, try · To what, where: great room, big bed, middling bed, little white bed

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 beds	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 beds	nummod
14	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 beds	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bed	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bed	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bed	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bed	amod
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bed	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 bed	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bed	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bed	det
28	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bed	compound
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bed	cc
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 bed	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bed	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bed	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bed	amod
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bed	amod
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 climbed	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 climbed	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 climbed	nsubj
41	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
42	up	up	ADV	_	41 climbed	advmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 bed	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 bed	det
45	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 bed	amod
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 climbed	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hard	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 hard	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 hard	expl
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 hard	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 hard	advmod
52	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 climbed	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 lumpy	cc
54	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hard	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 uncomfortable	cc
56	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hard	conj
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 jumped	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 jumped	nsubj
59	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 climbed	advcl
60	down	down	ADP	_	59 jumped	compound:prt
61	again	again	ADV	_	59 jumped	advmod
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 once	case
63	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	59 jumped	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 tried	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 tried	cc
66	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 climbed	conj
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 bed	det
68	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 bed	compound
69	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 tried	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Scrapefoot				upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Scrapefoot	a great room			with three beds in room	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
3	is a	past	one	a big bed				tree rules
4	is a	past	one	a middling bed				tree rules
5	is a	past	one	a little white bed				tree rules
6	climb up	past	Scrapefoot		the big bed			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
7	is	past	Scrapefoot not said here				hard property	tree rules
8	be		Scrapefoot not said here					tree rules
9	be		Scrapefoot not said here					tree rules
10	jump down	past	Scrapefoot			again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
11	try	past	Scrapefoot not said here	the middling bed				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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