The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 85

So the mortar climbed up to the beam over the front door, and the egg lay quite still on the ground, while the wasp set down the water-bucket in a corner.

Who acts: mortar, egg, wasp · What happens: climb up, lie, set down · To what, where: front door, ground, water bucket, corner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortar, egg, wasp), 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 climbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mortar	det
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 beam	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beam	det
8	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lay	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 egg	det
16	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	parataxis
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 still	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wasp	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 wasp	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wasp	det
26	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	parataxis
27	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wasp	acl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 set	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bucket	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bucket	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 water	punct
32	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 set	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 corner	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 corner	det
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the mortar		the front door		to the beam	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to beam=Initial_Location over door=Destination
2	lie	past	the egg		the ground	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	set down	participle	the wasp not said here	the water bucket	a corner			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme in corner=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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