The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 52

So the gallows was built upon a high platform, and the fisher’s son mounted the steps up to it, and turned at the top to make the speech that was expected from every doomed man, innocent or guilt.

Who acts: son · What happens: build, mount up, turn, make, expect, doom · To what, where: gallows, steps, fisher, top, speech

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	_	5 built	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gallows	det
3	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 platform	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 platform	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 platform	amod
9	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mounted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mounted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fisher	det
13	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 fisher	case
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mounted	nsubj
16	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mounted	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	16 mounted	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mounted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mounted	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 top	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 top	det
27	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turned	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 speech	det
31	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 expected	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 expected	aux:pass
34	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 speech	acl:relcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 man	case
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 man	det
37	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 expected	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 innocent	punct
40	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 guilt	cc
42	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 innocent	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the gallows			upon a high platform	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	mount up	past	the fisher's son	the steps	fisher			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient
3	turn	past	the fisher's son not said here			the top		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at top=Trajectory
4	make	to-infinitive	the fisher's son not said here	the speech				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
5	expect	past · passive		the speech			from every doomed man	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	doom	participle						tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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