The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 19

But it could not get up the whole way, and for all that it stretched and strained, it could not touch Christian, who meanwhile stood and trembled up in the pulpit.

Who acts: Sentry, Christian · What happens: not get up, stretch, strain, not touch, stand, tremble up · To what, where: whole way, Christian, pulpit

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sentry, Christian), 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	_	5 get	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 touch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 touch	cc
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 stretched	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 stretched	det:predet
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stretched	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stretched	nsubj
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touch	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 strained	cc
18	strained	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stretched	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretched	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touch	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 touch	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 touch	advmod
23	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
24	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 touch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stood	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
27	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	28 stood	advmod
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 Christian	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 trembled	cc
30	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stood	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 trembled	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 pulpit	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pulpit	det
34	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trembled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not get up	could	Sentry	the whole way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stretch	past	Sentry				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	strain	past	Sentry not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
4	not touch	could	Sentry	Christian			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme christian=Co-Theme
5	stand	past	Christian			meanwhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tremble up	past	Christian not said here		the pulpit		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pulpit=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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