Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 71

He was overjoyed to see her, and longed to get to the top of the mountain, but the sides were so slippery that every time he attempted to climb he fell back again.

Who acts: sides, castle · What happens: overjoy, see, long, get, be, attempt · To what, where: castle, Stromberg

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sides, castle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 overjoyed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 overjoyed	aux:pass
3	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overjoyed	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 longed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 longed	cc
9	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 overjoyed	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 longed	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mountain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slippery	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 slippery	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sides	det
21	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 slippery	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 slippery	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 slippery	advmod
24	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 longed	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 attempted	mark
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 attempted	obl:unmarked
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 attempted	nsubj
29	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 slippery	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 climb	mark
31	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 attempted	xcomp
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 climb	ccomp
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 fell	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		castle			tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Stromberg			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	long	past					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive				to the top of the mountain result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result
5	is	past	the sides			slippery property	tree rules
6	attempt	past	castle		time		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	castle not said here				tree rules
8	fall back	past	castle		again		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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