The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 16

The higher the young man climbed the higher the birds seemed to be, and when he looked down the earth below appeared no bigger than a star.

Who acts: young man, birds, bird, earth · What happens: climb, seem, be, look down, appear · To what, where: earth

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, birds, bird, earth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 higher	det
2	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 climbed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	nsubj
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 higher	det
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 climbed	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 be	mark
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 looked	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climbed	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 looked	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obj
22	below	below	ADV	_	23 appeared	advmod
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 earth	acl:relcl
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 bigger	advmod
25	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 appeared	xcomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 star	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 star	det
28	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bigger	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past	the young man			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	the birds			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	be	to-infinitive	the birds not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look down	past	bird	the earth		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Attribute
5	appear	past	the earth not said here		below, big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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