The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 38

Then Peder took the ladder that led up to the hayloft and set it against the cow's neck, and he climbed up and slipped the rope over her head.

Who acts: Peder, ladder · What happens: take, lead up, set, climb up, slip · To what, where: ladder, neck, rope, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peder, ladder), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladder	det
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 led	nsubj
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ladder	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 led	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hayloft	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hayloft	det
11	hayloft	hayloft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 led	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	19 neck	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neck	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 cow	case
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 climbed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 climbed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climbed	nsubj
23	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 climbed	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 climbed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rope	det
28	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Peder	the ladder		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme
2	lead up	past	the ladder				to the hayloft	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to hayloft=Patient
3	set	infinitive	the ladder not said here	ladder	the cow's neck			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against neck=Destination
4	climb up	past	Peder					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slip	past	Peder not said here	the rope	cow's head			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rope=Patient

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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