The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 37

So he had fastened them to a tree and was jumping with all his might up in the air so that he should hit the two legs of the trousers as he came down.

Who acts: way · What happens: fasten, jump, hit, come down · To what, where: trousers, air, two legs

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 fastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fastened	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	aux
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fastened	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jumping	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumping	aux
11	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fastened	conj
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 air	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 air	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 air	nmod:poss
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 air	aux
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 might	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jumping	obl
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 hit	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hit	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hit	aux
24	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 jumping	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 legs	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 legs	nummod
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hit	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 trousers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trousers	det
30	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 legs	nmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hit	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · perfect	way	trousers		to a tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
2	jump	past · progressive	way not said here		way's air		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
3	hit	should	way	the two legs of the trousers			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leg=Co-Theme
4	come down	past	way			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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