The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 39

So the next day he stood where he could watch the young men go up, and he noted the places on the wall that seemed most difficult, and made up his mind that when his turn came he would go up some other way.

Who acts: next day, prince, young men, wall, mind · What happens: stand, watch, go up, note, seem, make up · To what, where: places, wall, mind, other way

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 (next day, prince, young men, wall), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 watch	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 watch	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	aux
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 go	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 noted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 noted	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 noted	nsubj
19	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 places	det
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 noted	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 wall	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wall	det
24	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noted	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wall	acl:relcl
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 difficult	advmod
28	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stood	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 made	compound:prt
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mind	nmod:poss
34	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 came	nsubj
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 turn	nmod:poss
38	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 mind	acl:relcl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 go	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 go	aux
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 came	xcomp
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 go	compound:prt
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 way	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 way	amod
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the next day				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch	could	prince				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	go up	present	the young men				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	note	past	prince	the places	the wall		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent place=Topic
5	seem	past	the wall			difficult property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	make up	participle	the next day not said here	prince's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
7	come	past	prince's mind				tree rules
8	go up	would	prince	some other way			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	mind		prince				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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