The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 20

Once he climbed a little higher than before, and hope rose in his heart, then down he came with such force that his hands and knees smarted worse than ever.

Who acts: sun, hope, hands · What happens: climb, rise, come, smart · To what, where: heart

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, hope, hands), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 climbed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 higher	obl:unmarked
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 climbed	ccomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 higher	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rose	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rose	cc
11	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 heart	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heart	nmod:poss
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rose	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 force	case
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 force	amod
23	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 smarted	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 smarted	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knees	cc
28	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hands	conj
29	smarted	smart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	advcl
30	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 smarted	xcomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 worse	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	sun			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	hope	sun's heart		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location
3	come	past	sun		with such force; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	smart	past	sun's hands and knees		bad property	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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