The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 60

But it could not come up over the step in front of the altar, and there it continued to howl, and scream, and threaten, until the clock struck one, when it had to go into the chest again, and Christian heard the lid slam above it.

Who acts: standing, clock, Christian · What happens: not come up, continue, howl, scream, threaten, strike · To what, where: one, chest, lid slam, standing

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 (standing, clock, 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 come	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 step	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 step	det
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 step	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 altar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 altar	det
14	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 continued	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 continued	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 continued	expl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 continued	nsubj
19	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 howl	mark
21	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 continued	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scream	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scream	cc
24	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 howl	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threaten	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 threaten	cc
27	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 struck	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 struck	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 clock	det
31	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 struck	nsubj
32	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 threaten	conj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 struck	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 had	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 struck	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 chest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 chest	det
42	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obl
43	again	again	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 heard	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 heard	cc
46	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 heard	nsubj
47	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 had	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 slam	det
49	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 slam	compound
50	slam	slam	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 heard	obj
51	above	above	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 heard	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come up	could	standing				over the step in front of the altar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over step=Initial_Location
2	continue	past	standing		there			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	howl	to-infinitive	standing not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	infinitive	standing not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	threaten	infinitive	standing not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	strike	past	the clock	one				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	have	past	standing					tree rules
8	go	to-infinitive	standing not said here		the chest	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chest=Initial_Location
9	hear	past	Christian	the lid slam	standing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer slam=Stimulus

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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