The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 185

Thereupon Waska and Schurka started off, and travelled night and day till they reached the stone tower where Martin was imprisoned; and the cat climbed up the window, and called out to him:

Who acts: Waska, mice, cat · What happens: start off, travel, reach, imprison, climb up, call out · To what, where: stone tower, Martin, window

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, mice, cat), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
2	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Schurka	cc
4	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Waska	conj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 started	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 travelled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 travelled	cc
9	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	conj
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travelled	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 night	conj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 reached	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reached	nsubj
15	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 travelled	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tower	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tower	compound
18	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reached	obj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 imprisoned	advmod
20	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 imprisoned	aux:pass
22	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tower	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 climbed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 climbed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cat	det
26	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	nsubj
27	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 started	parataxis
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 climbed	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 window	det
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climbed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 called	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 called	cc
33	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 climbed	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 called	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 called	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	start off	past	Waska and Schurka				thereupon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	travel	past	Waska and Schurka not said here			night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past	mice = mouse	the stone tower				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme
4	imprison	past · passive		Martin				vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	climb up	past	the cat	the window				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location window=Theme
6	call out speech: assert	participle	the cat not said here		Martin			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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