The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 36

But when he came to the mountain into which the Princess had been carried, the difficulty was to ascend the precipitous wall of rock by which he was to get on to the mountain beyond, for the rock stood right up on end, as steep as a house side and as smooth as a sheet of glass.

Who acts: youth, difficulty, rock · What happens: come, carry, be, stand · To what, where: mountain, Princess, end

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, difficulty, rock), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 ascend	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ascend	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 carried	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 carried	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 carried	aux:pass
14	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 difficulty	det
17	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ascend	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ascend	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ascend	mark
20	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wall	det
22	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wall	amod
23	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ascend	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wall	nmod
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 get	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 get	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ascend	parataxis
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 mountain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountain	det
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
36	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 stood	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rock	det
40	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	nsubj
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 get	parataxis
42	right	right	ADV	_	43 up	advmod
43	up	up	ADV	_	41 stood	advmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 end	case
45	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 steep	punct
47	as	as	ADP	_	48 steep	case
48	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stood	conj
49	as	as	ADP	_	52 side	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 side	det
51	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 side	compound
52	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 steep	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 smooth	cc
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 smooth	advmod
55	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 steep	conj
56	as	as	ADP	_	58 sheet	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 sheet	det
58	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 smooth	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 glass	case
60	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sheet	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ascend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	youth		the mountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
2	carry	past · perfect · passive		the Princess				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	the difficulty				ascend property	tree rules
4	is	past	youth				to the mountain; beyond, get property	tree rules
5	stand	past	the rock			on end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location

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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