The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 56

And because he had a tender heart, he put up a ladder, which he climbed unhooked one body after the other, and took down all the seven.

Who acts: wind · What happens: have, put up, unhook, take down · To what, where: tender heart, ladder, seven

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 heart	det
6	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	compound
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ladder	det
13	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unhooked	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 unhooked	nsubj:pass
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unhooked	nsubj
17	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unhooked	aux:pass
18	unhooked	unhook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ladder	acl:relcl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 body	nummod
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 unhooked	obj
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 unhooked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 took	compound:prt
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 seven	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 seven	det
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 took	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	wind	a tender heart		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	put up	past	wind	a ladder		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ladder=Goal
3	unhook	past · passive		a ladder	after the other	tree rules
4	take down	past	wind not said here	all seven		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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