More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 75

The Prince, poor fellow, climbed up a tree, frightened of him, but the bear told him to come down, that it was no use of him to stop there.

Who acts: Prince, bear · What happens: climb up, frighten, tell, come down, be, stop · To what, where: tree, Jack, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, bear), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 climbed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fellow	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
7	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 climbed	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climbed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frightened	punct
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tree	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frightened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climbed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 use	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 use	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 use	cop
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 use	det
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stop	mark
33	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 use	acl
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 stop	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the Prince	a tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	frighten	participle		a tree not said here			of Jack	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	the bear		Jack			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bear not said here				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	bear	no use			of Jack	tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive	the bear not said here			there		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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