The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 116

Before the dawn the giant rose and went out, and immediately the queen ran up to the Bonnach stone, and tugged and pushed at it till it was quite steady on its ledge, and could not fall over.

Who acts: giant rose, queen, rose · What happens: go out, run up, tug, push, be, not fall over · To what, where: ledge

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant rose, queen, rose), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rose	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rose	amod
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 ran	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 stone	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stone	det
19	Bonnach	Bonnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 stone	compound
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tugged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tugged	cc
23	tugged	tug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pushed	cc
25	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tugged	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pushed	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 steady	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 steady	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 steady	cop
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 steady	advmod
32	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pushed	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ledge	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ledge	nmod:poss
35	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 steady	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fall	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fall	cc
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fall	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 fall	advmod
40	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
41	over	over	ADV	_	40 fall	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the giant rose		dawn		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run up	past	the queen			to the Bonnach stone result; immediately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stone=Result
3	tug	participle					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	push	participle				at rose	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	is	past	rose	rose's ledge		steady property	tree rules
6	not fall over	could				over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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