The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 122

He took with him his drum, which had holes in one end since the time he had climbed up on it to reach a cluster of rowan berries, and his tin sabre, which was a little broken, because he had with incredible courage fought his way through a whole unfriendly army of gooseberry bushes.

Who acts: Walter, drum, incredible courage · What happens: take, have, climb up, reach, break, fight · To what, where: drum, holes, one end, cluster, tin sabre, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, drum, incredible courage), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drum	nmod:poss
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drum	acl:relcl
10	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 end	nummod
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
14	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 climbed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 climbed	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 climbed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 climbed	aux
19	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 had	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 climbed	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 climbed	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 reach	mark
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 climbed	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cluster	det
26	cluster	cluster	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reach	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 berries	case
28	rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 berries	compound
29	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cluster	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sabre	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sabre	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sabre	nmod:poss
33	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sabre	compound
34	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 broken	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 broken	obj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 broken	aux:pass
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 little	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 broken	obl:unmarked
40	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 sabre	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
42	because	because	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 broken	conj
45	with	with	SCONJ	_	48 fought	mark
46	incredible	incredible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 courage	amod
47	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fought	nsubj
48	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 had	ccomp
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 way	nmod:poss
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fought	obj
51	through	through	ADP	_	55 army	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 army	det
53	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 army	amod
54	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 army	amod
55	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fought	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 bushes	case
57	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bushes	compound
58	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 army	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Walter	Walter's drum			with boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
2	have	past	Walter's drum	holes		in one end		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
3	climb up	past · perfect	Walter		drum	time		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
4	reach	to-infinitive	Walter not said here	a cluster of rowan berries				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cluster=Theme
5	break	past · passive		Walter's tin sabre			a little obl:unmarked	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: which=Patient
6	have	past	Walter					tree rules
7	fight	past	incredible courage	Walter's way	a whole unfriendly army of gooseberry bushes			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent

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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