The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 127

It was certainly tiresome sometimes climbing over the fallen trees, and getting caught in the branches, and waging war with the juniper bushes and the midges, but what did that matter?

Who acts: wood · What happens: be, climb, fall, catch, wage, do · To what, where: fallen trees, branches, war, matter

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tiresome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiresome	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 tiresome	advmod
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 climbing	advmod
6	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tiresome	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climbing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
13	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 caught	aux:pass
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tiresome	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 branches	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 branches	det
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caught	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waging	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 waging	cc
20	waging	wage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tiresome	conj
21	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 waging	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 bushes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bushes	det
24	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bushes	compound
25	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 waging	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 midges	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 midges	det
28	midges	midge	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bushes	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiresome	parataxis
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 matter	det
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tiresome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	wood			certainly, tiresome property	tree rules
2	climb	gerund	wood not said here		the fallen trees	sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory
3	fall	participle					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch	gerund · passive			the branches		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
5	wage	gerund	wood not said here	war		with the juniper bushes and the midges	tree rules
6	do	past		that matter			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality

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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