The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 37

“We spend our whole time climbing up the walls of the palace, trying to reach the windows of the princess,” answered the young men; “but, as yet, no one has reached within ten feet of them.”

Who acts: We, young men · What happens: spend, climb up, try, reach, answer · To what, where: walls, windows, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, young men), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spend	nsubj
3	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 answered	parataxis
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spend	obj
7	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spend	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 climbing	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 climbing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walls	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trying	punct
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 climbing	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 windows	det
19	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reach	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 princess	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 windows	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spend	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 spend	punct
25	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 answered	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 reached	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 reached	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 but	punct
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 yet	case
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	39 reached	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 reached	punct
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 reached	nsubj:pass
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 reached	aux
39	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 answered	parataxis
40	within	within	ADP	_	42 feet	case
41	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 feet	nummod
42	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 reached	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 feet	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 reached	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend in a quote	present	We		time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	climb up in a quote	gerund	We not said here	the walls of the palace			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme
3	try in a quote	gerund	We not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	reach not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	the windows of the princess			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	past	the young men				tree rules
6	reach in a quote	present · perfect · passive		no one		within ten feet of men	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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