The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 81

My friend Ladder, who was only waiting for these words, hastens out, leans her two arms on the edge of the well, then Drakestail climbs nimbly on her back, and hop! he is in the yard, where he begins to sing louder than ever.

Who acts: friend, Drakestail, hop · What happens: wait, hasten out, lean, climb, be, begin · To what, where: Ladder, edge, back

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Drakestail, hop), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hastens	nsubj
3	Ladder	Ladder	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 friend	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waiting	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 waiting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waiting	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 waiting	advmod
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 friend	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waiting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 friend	punct
13	hastens	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 hastens	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leans	punct
16	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hastens	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leans	obj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 arms	nummod
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 leans	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 edge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 edge	det
22	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leans	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 well	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 well	det
25	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 edge	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 climbs	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 climbs	advmod
28	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 climbs	nsubj
29	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hastens	conj
30	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	29 climbs	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 climbs	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 yard	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 yard	cc
36	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 yard	nsubj
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 hop	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 yard	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 yard	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 yard	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 yard	det
42	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hastens	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 begins	punct
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 begins	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 begins	nsubj
46	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 yard	acl:relcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 sing	mark
48	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 begins	xcomp
49	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 sing	xcomp
50	than	than	ADP	_	51 ever	case
51	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 louder	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hastens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	My friend				for this words	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hasten out	present	My friend					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lean	present	My friend not said here	Ladder	the edge of the well			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme arm=Destination
4	climb	present	Drakestail		Ladder's back	then	nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
5	is	present	hop				in the yard	tree rules
6	begin	present	Drakestail					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Drakestail not said here				loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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