The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 17

Time after time he walked round it, trying to find some knots, however small, where he could put his feet, but the bark was quite smooth, and he soon saw that if he was to reach the top at all, it must be by climbing up with his knees like a sailor.

Who acts: sun, bark · What happens: walk, try, find, put, be, see · To what, where: tree, knots, feet, all

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, bark), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl:unmarked
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Time	nmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	nsubj
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trying	punct
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 walked	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 knots	det
13	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 small	punct
15	however	however	ADV	_	16 small	advmod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trying	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 put	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 small	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 smooth	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 smooth	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bark	det
27	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smooth	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smooth	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 smooth	advmod
30	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 put	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saw	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 saw	advmod
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 reach	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 reach	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 reach	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 reach	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 reach	mark
41	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 saw	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 top	det
43	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 reach	obj
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 all	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 reach	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 climbing	punct
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 climbing	nsubj
48	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 climbing	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 climbing	cop
50	by	by	SCONJ	_	51 climbing	mark
51	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 saw	advcl
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 climbing	compound:prt
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 knees	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 knees	nmod:poss
55	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 climbing	obl
56	like	like	ADP	_	58 sailor	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 sailor	det
58	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 knees	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	sun		tree	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
2	try	gerund	sun not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	sun not said here	some knots				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Topic
4	put	could	sun	sun's feet				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal
5	is	past	the bark				smooth property	tree rules
6	see	past	sun				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	sun		all		reach property	tree rules
8	is	must	bark				with sun's knees like a sailor; climb property	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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