The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 18

It was in vain that the nyamatsanes tried to climb up and reach him; they slid down again much faster than they had gone up; and by sunset they were quite worn out, and fell asleep at the foot of the rock.

Who acts: hero, nyamatsanes · What happens: be, try, climb up, reach, slide down, go up · To what, where: man, nyamatsanes, foot

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, nyamatsanes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 tried	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nyamatsanes	det
7	nyamatsanes	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 climb	mark
10	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climb	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reach	cc
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climb	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reach	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 slid	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 slid	nsubj
17	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 slid	compound:prt
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 slid	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 faster	advmod
21	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 gone	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 gone	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gone	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	aux
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 slid	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 gone	compound:prt
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 worn	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 worn	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 sunset	case
30	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worn	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 worn	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 worn	aux:pass
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 worn	advmod
34	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vain	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 worn	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fell	cc
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 worn	advcl
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fell	xcomp
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 foot	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 foot	det
42	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fell	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 rock	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rock	det
45	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 foot	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hero				vain property	tree rules
2	try	past	the nyamatsanes					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	climb up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the nyamatsanes not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	infinitive	the nyamatsanes not said here	man				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	slide down	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane			again		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go up	past · perfect	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane				fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	wear out	past · passive		nyamatsanes = nyamatsane		sunset		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
8	fall	past			the foot of the rock		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=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 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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