The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 31
But no, instead of the rod, there stood a golden ladder, leading straight up to the city of the air.
What happens: stand, lead · To what, where: golden ladder
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 stood | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rod | punct |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 7 rod | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rod | det |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 no | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 stood | expl |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ladder | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ladder | amod |
| 13 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leading | punct |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 up | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 leading | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 air | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 city | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a golden ladder | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ladder=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | to the city of the air | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to city=Patient |
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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