The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

So, by the help of his thread, he tried to mount upwards, but he could go such a little way, and hurt himself dreadfully when he tumbled back to earth again.

Who acts: Souci · What happens: try, mount, go, hurt, tumble back, help · To what, where: little way, Souci, earth, thread

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souci), 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	_	11 tried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 help	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 help	det
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 thread	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thread	nmod:poss
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mount	mark
13	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	13 mount	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	conj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 way	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hurt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hurt	cc
26	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hurt	obj
28	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	26 hurt	advmod
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 tumbled	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tumbled	nsubj
31	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hurt	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 tumbled	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tumbled	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	31 tumbled	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Souci				by the help of Souci's thread	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive	Souci not said here				upwards property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	go	could	Souci	such little way				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hurt	past	Souci not said here	Souci			dreadfully property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient
5	tumble back	past	Souci		earth	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location
6	help			Souci's thread				nom help «act transitive»: of=patient

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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