The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 15

When he reached the tree he put out his hand to pick a golden apple; but all of a sudden the tree grew higher, so that he could not reach its fruit.

Who acts: sun, all · What happens: reach, put out, pick, grow, not reach · To what, where: tree, hand, golden apple, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, all), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grew	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tree	acl:relcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pick	mark
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 apple	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 apple	amod
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 grew	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 grew	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
21	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 all	nmod
24	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 grew	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reach	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 reach	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reach	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 reach	advmod
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 grew	advcl
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fruit	nmod:poss
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reach	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	sun	the tree		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	put out	past	sun	sun's hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3	pick	to-infinitive	sun not said here	a golden apple		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
4	grow	past	all		high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not reach	could	sun	apple's fruit		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fruit=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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