The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 100

Ciccu did not answer, but set a ladder against the tree, so that he could reach the topmost branches, and had his foot already on the first rung when he heard the voice of his brother Alfin: ‘Stop! the trunk belongs to me, and I forbid you to touch it!’

Who acts: Ciccu, trunk, I · What happens: not answer, set, reach, have, hear, stop · To what, where: ladder, tree, topmost branches, foot, first rung, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, trunk, I), 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	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	advmod
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 set	cc
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ladder	det
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 set	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reach	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 reach	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reach	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answer	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
20	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 branches	amod
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reach	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 foot	nmod:poss
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	already	already	ADV	_	31 rung	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 rung	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rung	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 rung	amod
31	rung	rung	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 heard	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 voice	det
36	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 brother	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brother	nmod:poss
39	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 voice	nmod
40	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 brother	appos
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 Stop	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 Stop	punct
43	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 heard	parataxis
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 belongs	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trunk	det
46	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 belongs	nsubj
47	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 Stop	ccomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 me	case
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 belongs	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 forbid	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 forbid	cc
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 forbid	nsubj
53	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 forbid	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 touch	mark
56	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 forbid	advcl
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 touch	obj
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Ciccu				tree rules
2	set	past		a ladder		the tree	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme against tree=Destination
3	reach	could	Ciccu	the topmost branches			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
4	have	past		Ciccu's foot		the first rung	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
5	hear	past	Ciccu	the voice of Ciccu's brother			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	stop	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	belong	present	the trunk		me		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	forbid	present	I	you			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme
9	touch	to-infinitive	I not said here	trunk			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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