The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 7

But from the sound of the blows the lion knew that the combat was going ill for Owen, so he climbed up till he reached the top of the tower, where there was a door on to the roof, and from the tower he sprang on to the walls, and from the walls to the ground.

Who acts: combat, top, door · What happens: know, go, climb up, reach, be, spring on · To what, where: sound, roof, tower

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (combat, top, door), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 sound	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 blows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blows	det
7	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blows	nmod:unmarked
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 combat	det
13	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 knew	ccomp
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 going	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 Owen	case
18	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 climbed	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 climbed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 climbed	nsubj
22	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 climbed	compound:prt
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 reached	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climbed	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 roof	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tower	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tower	det
31	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 was	advmod
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 roof	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 door	det
37	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	nsubj
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 roof	case
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 roof	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 roof	det
41	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sprang	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sprang	cc
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 tower	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tower	det
46	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sprang	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sprang	nsubj
48	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climbed	conj
49	on	on	ADP	_	48 sprang	compound:prt
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 walls	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 walls	det
52	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sprang	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 walls	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 walls	cc
55	from	from	ADP	_	57 walls	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 walls	det
57	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knew	obl
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 ground	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ground	det
60	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 walls	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	past		the sound of the blows the lion	from the walls to the ground	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past · progressive	the combat		for Owen; ill property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for owen=Beneficiary
3	climb up	past	combat			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	past	combat			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the top of the tower	the roof		tree rules
6	spring on	past	door	the tower	to the walls	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tower=Trajectory

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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