The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 89
Then they climbed up higher, and the fell grew more level, so that they could see farther around them.
Who acts: wounds · What happens: climb up, fall, grow, see · To what, where: more level
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wounds), 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 | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 climbed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grew | det |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 level | amod |
| 12 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 see | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grew | conj |
| 19 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 see | advmod |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | wounds = wound | then | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | grow | past | more level | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location level=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | could | wounds = wound | around fells = fell; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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