The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 7

In spite of having their horses shod with sharp nails, no one managed to get more than half-way up, and then they all fell back right down to the bottom of the steep slippery hill.

Who acts: knights · What happens: have, shoe, manage, get, fall back · To what, where: horses, spite, one, more

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 (knights), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shod	obl
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 having	mark
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 shod	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horses	nmod:poss
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj
7	shod	shoe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 nails	case
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nails	amod
10	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shod	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shod	conj
14	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 one	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 managed	xcomp
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 get	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	21 way	case
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	21 way	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 more	obl
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 way	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 fell	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 they	det
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shod	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	right	right	ADV	_	31 down	advmod
31	down	down	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 bottom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bottom	det
34	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 hill	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hill	det
37	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hill	amod
38	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hill	amod
39	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bottom	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shod	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		knights's horses				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	shoe	past			spite		with sharp nails	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme
3	manage	participle		no one not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get	to-infinitive		more				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
5	fall back	past	knights = knight			then	to the bottom of the steep slippery hill; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=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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