The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 51

It took the frog a year and four days to mount the ten thousand steps that led to the upper world, but that was because she was still under the spell of a wicked fairy.

Who acts: thousand steps, frog · What happens: take, mount, lead, be · To what, where: arm, frog, thousand steps, spell

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand steps, frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:1796): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	expl
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 days	cc
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 year	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 mount	mark
11	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	csubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 steps	det
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 steps	nummod
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mount	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 led	nsubj
17	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 steps	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
20	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 world	amod
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 spell	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spell	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 spell	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	32 spell	advmod
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 spell	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spell	det
32	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 fairy	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fairy	det
35	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fairy	amod
36	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spell	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		arm	the frog		year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument frog=Destination
2	mount	to-infinitive		the thousand steps					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient
3	lead	past	the thousand steps					to the upper world	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to world=Patient
4	is	past	frog			the spell	still	of a wicked fairy	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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