The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 88

The young man drew back with a start; but in a moment he climbed the tree, cutting the rope which held the sword, and carried the weapon to his mother.

Who acts: young man, man, rope · What happens: draw back, climb, cut, hold, carry · To what, where: tree, rope, sword, weapon, mother

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, rope), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 drew	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 climbed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 climbed	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 climbed	nsubj
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cutting	punct
19	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 climbed	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rope	det
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cutting	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 held	nsubj
23	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rope	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sword	det
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 held	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 carried	cc
28	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 weapon	det
30	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mother	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw back	past	the young man				with a start	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	climb	past	man	the tree		moment		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	cut	gerund	man not said here	the rope				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product
4	hold	past	the rope	the sword				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	carry	past	the young man not said here	the weapon	man's mother			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme to mother=Destination

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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