The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 35

Then, turning my head that way as well as the pegs and strings would let me, I saw a stage set up, about a foot and a half from the ground, with two or three ladders to mount it.

Who acts: turning, I · What happens: turn, let, see, set up, mount · To what, where: head, me, stage

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turning, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 let	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 let	csubj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 pegs	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pegs	det
12	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turning	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strings	cc
14	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pegs	conj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stage	det
22	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stage	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 foot	punct
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 foot	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 foot	det
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 half	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 half	det
31	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 foot	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 half	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ladders	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 ladders	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 ladders	nummod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 three	cc
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 two	conj
40	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 mount	mark
42	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 ladders	acl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 mount	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		my head		that way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	let	would	turning	me	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	see	past	I	a stage		about a foot and a half from the ground	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stage=Stimulus
4	set up	participle		a stage not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	mount	to-infinitive	turning not said here	stage			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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