The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 43

He mustered his strength and climbed to the top, and there he found a giant tree whose foot kept firm the wrinkled earth, and whose crest touched the very heaven.

Who acts: Prince, foot, crest · What happens: muster, climb, find, keep, wrinkle, touch · To what, where: strength, top, giant tree, heaven

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, foot, crest), 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	2 mustered	nsubj
2	mustered	muster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 strength	nmod:poss
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mustered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 climbed	cc
6	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mustered	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climbed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 found	expl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mustered	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
18	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	19 foot	nmod:poss
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tree	acl:relcl
21	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earth	det
23	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 earth	amod
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 firm	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 touched	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 touched	cc
27	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	28 crest	nmod:poss
28	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touched	nsubj
29	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mustered	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 heaven	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 heaven	advmod
32	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touched	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mustered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	muster	past	Prince	Prince's strength			tree rules
2	climb	past	Prince not said here		the top		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
3	find	past	Prince	a giant tree	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
4	keep	past	foot			firm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	touch	past	crest	the heaven			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heaven=Co-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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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