The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 76

But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavy stone on to the rope and let them pull it up.

Who acts: last, ropes · What happens: be, fasten, let, pull up · To what, where: heavy stone, ropes, stone

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, ropes), 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	_	13 fastened	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 suspicious	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 suspicious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 suspicious	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 suspicious	obl:unmarked
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fastened	advcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 suspicious	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 suspicious	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fastened	nsubj
13	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fastened	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 rope	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 rope	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rope	det
20	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fastened	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fastened	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pull	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 pull	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	last		of last's brothers; a little obl:unmarked; suspicious property	tree rules
2	fasten	past	last	a heavy stone	on the rope	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient on rope=Co-Patient
3	let	infinitive	last not said here	ropes = rope		tree rules
4	pull up	infinitive	ropes = rope not said here	stone		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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