The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 40

But all the same, although he slept, he had stuck his sharp claws so firmly into the glass that he was quite safe not to fall.

Who acts: boy · What happens: sleep, stick, be, not fall · To what, where: sharp claws, glass

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	4 same	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 same	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
6	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 slept	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slept	nsubj
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 same	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slept	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stuck	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	aux
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 slept	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 claws	nmod:poss
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 claws	amod
15	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stuck	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 firmly	advmod
17	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	12 stuck	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 glass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 glass	det
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 safe	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 safe	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 safe	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 safe	advmod
25	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stuck	xcomp
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 fall	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fall	mark
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 safe	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	boy				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stick	past · perfect	boy	boy's sharp claws	the glass	firmly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent claw=Theme into glass=Destination
3	is	past	boy			safe property	tree rules
4	not fall	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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