The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 25

Still he did not give up, and after many days of efforts and tumbles he found to his great joy that he could go a little higher and stay up a little longer than he had done at first, and by-and-bye he was able to live in the air altogether.

Who acts: Souci · What happens: not give up, tumble, find, go, stay up, do · To what, where: great joy, air

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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tumbles	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tumbles	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tumbles	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 efforts	case
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 days	cc
15	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tumbles	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 joy	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 joy	nmod:poss
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 joy	amod
21	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 joy	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 higher	obl:unmarked
28	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 go	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stay	cc
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 stay	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 done	advmod
35	than	than	SCONJ	_	38 done	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 done	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 done	aux
38	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 stay	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 first	case
40	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 done	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 able	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 able	cc
43	by	by	ADP	_	47 bye	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 by	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 by	cc
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 by	punct
47	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 able	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 able	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 able	cop
50	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 give	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 live	mark
52	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 able	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 air	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 air	det
55	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 live	obl
56	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	52 live	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past · do-support	Souci			still		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tumble	present	Souci not said here			day		tree rules
3	find	past	Souci				to Souci's great joy	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	go	could	Souci	Souci's great joy not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=Theme
5	stay up	infinitive	Souci not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past · perfect	Souci				long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Souci				by bye; able property	tree rules
8	live	to-infinitive	Souci not said here		the air		altogether property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
9	joy		Souci					nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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