The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 88
Up this rock he climbed with great difficulty, and fastened the ram’s head to the bushes with a cord, leaving only the tips of the horns with the bells visible.
Who acts: son · What happens: climb, fasten, leave · To what, where: rock, head, tips
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rock | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 difficulty | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 difficulty | amod |
| 8 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fastened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fastened | cc |
| 11 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ram | det |
| 13 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 ram | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bushes | det |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fastened | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 cord | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cord | det |
| 21 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaving | punct |
| 23 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fastened | advcl |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 tips | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tips | det |
| 26 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leaving | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 horns | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horns | det |
| 29 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tips | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 bells | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bells | det |
| 32 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 horns | nmod |
| 33 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bells | amod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | son | this rock | with great difficulty | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up rock=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | son not said here | the ram's head | to the bushes; with a cord | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient to bush=Co-Patient with cord=Instrument | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | son not said here | the tips of the horns with the bells | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme |
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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