The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 41

Thanks to what he had learned from the failure of the rest, he managed to grasp one little rough projection after another, till at last, to the envy of his friends, he stood on the sill of the princess’s window.

Who acts: prince, rest · What happens: learn, manage, grasp, stand, fail, envy · To what, where: failure, Thanks, one little rough projection, sill, friends

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 (prince, rest), 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	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 managed	obl:unmarked
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Thanks	nmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 what	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 failure	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 failure	det
9	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 failure	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thanks	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 managed	nsubj
15	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grasp	mark
17	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 managed	xcomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 projection	nummod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 projection	amod
20	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 projection	amod
21	projection	projection	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grasp	obj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 another	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 grasp	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 last	punct
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 last	case
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grasp	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 envy	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 envy	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 envy	det
31	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 last	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 friends	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 friends	nmod:poss
34	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 envy	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stood	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stood	nsubj
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 managed	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 sill	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sill	det
40	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stood	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 window	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 princess	det
43	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 window	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 princess	case
45	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sill	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	prince		the failure of the rest		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from failure=Source
2	manage	past	prince	Thanks			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grasp	to-infinitive	prince not said here	one little rough projection		after another	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer projection=Stimulus
4	stand	past	prince		the sill of the princess's window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sill=Location
5	fail		the rest				nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	envy			prince's friends			nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=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 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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