The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85

But even after he had done all this freedom appeared as far from him as ever, for between him and the open country was a high wall, and so smooth that not even a monkey could climb it.

Who acts: Girouette, freedom, monkey · What happens: do, appear, be, climb · To what, where: freedom

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girouette, freedom, monkey), 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	_	10 appeared	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 appeared	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 freedom	det:predet
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 freedom	det
9	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 appeared	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 appeared	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 ever	advmod
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 appeared	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wall	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	28 wall	case
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wall	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 country	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 country	det
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 country	amod
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 him	conj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wall	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wall	det
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wall	amod
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smooth	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 smooth	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 smooth	advmod
32	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 appeared	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 climb	mark
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 monkey	advmod
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 monkey	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 monkey	det
37	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 climb	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 climb	aux
39	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 smooth	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 climb	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Girouette				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	appear	past	all freedom		ever	from Girouette; far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Girouette			for a high wall	tree rules
4	climb	could	a monkey	freedom			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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