The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 161

And in another moment she had climbed down and brought him back a roll, and then another, and another, till she had brought him the whole tray-load.

Who acts: Waska · What happens: climb down, bring back, bring · To what, where: roll, Schurka, whole tray load

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waska), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 climbed	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climbed	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 climbed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climbed	aux
7	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 climbed	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climbed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 brought	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 roll	det
14	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 another	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 another	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 another	advmod
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 brought	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 another	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 another	cc
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 another	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 brought	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 brought	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 load	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 load	amod
30	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 load	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tray	punct
32	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	climb down	past · perfect	Waska			moment	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring back	past	Waska not said here	a roll	Schurka		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination roll=Theme
3	bring	past · perfect	Waska	the whole tray load	Schurka		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination load=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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